Call for Papers TESTCOM / FATES '07 The International Event for Testing of Software and Communicating Systems 19th IFIP Int. Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems (TESTCOM) and 7th Int. Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software (FATES) Tallinn, Estonia June 26 -29, 2007 http://testcom-fates07.ioc.ee Co-located with FORTE 2007 For the first time, IFIP TESTCOM and FATES will be conducted jointly in Tallinn in the Summer of 2007. Bringing together the communities of these two established testing events promises to become a major testing event of 2007. We cordially invite you to submit testing related papers and join us in Tallinn! Scope and objective =================== Testing is one of the most important techniques for validating and checking the correctness of communication and software systems. Testing, however, is also a laborious and very cost-intensive task during the development process of such systems. TESTCOM is a series of international conferences addressing the problems of testing communicating systems, including communication protocols, services, distributed platforms, and middleware. FATES is an international series of workshops discussing the challenges of using rigorous and formal methods for testing software systems, such as communication-, control-, embedded-, administrative-, and web-based software. TESTCOM/FATES'07 aims at being a forum for researchers, developers, testers, vendors, and users to review, discuss, and learn about new approaches, concepts, theories, methodologies, tools, and experiences in the field of testing of software and communicating systems. Topics of interest ================== * Aspects of testing: test derivation, test selection, test coverage, test implementation and execution, test result analysis, test oracles, test management, monitoring and runtime verification, test frameworks, (automatic) partitioning * Model-based testing: (formal) models and modeling languages (automata, state machines, process algebra, logics, SDL, UML, Markov-chains, etc.), (on-line, off-line, on-the-fly) test generation from models, model coverage * Different kinds of testing: functional, interoperability, performance, conformance, security, reliability, robustness, etc. * Different application areas: communicating systems, among which protocols, middleware, (ad-hoc) networks, (web-)services, wireless applications, sensor networks, control systems, business information systems, embedded (real-time) software, web applications, etc. * Combinations of different testing techniques, and combinations with other validation techniques, e.g. combined verification and testing * Test tools to support any of the testing activities * Case studies and industrial applications of testing methodologies and test tools Types of contributions ====================== Different kinds of contributions are solicited for TESTCOM/FATES'07: * Full theory-oriented research papers (maximum 16 pages) describing results of theoretical or experimental research, which should be original, significant, and sound * Full application-oriented research papers (maximum 16 pages) describing results of experiments with, or applications of new testing methodologies, test tools, or industrial transfer, which should be significant, and which should provide sufficient (quantitative) data to assess the experiment or application * Work-in-progress, position papers, or short experience reports (maximum 4 pages; not necessarily original; lightweight reviewing; not published in the official proceedings) * Tool demonstration proposals (maximum 4 pages; not necessarily original; not published in the official proceedings) * Tutorial proposals (3 pages tutorial description) Submissions =========== Contributions for TESTCOM/FATES'07 have to be submitted electronically in PDF format via the conference website http://testcom-fates07.ioc.ee. Research papers have to follow the Springer LNCS paper format; see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All full research paper contributions will be thoroughly reviewed by the Program Committee. Work-in-progress, position papers, short experience reports, and tool demonstration proposals will undergo a lightweight reviewing process. Tutorial proposals will be selected based on the expected benefit for the conference attendees. The type of contribution - full theory-oriented research paper, full application-oriented research paper, work-in-progress, position paper, short experience report, tool demonstration, and tutorial proposals - must be explicitly stated by the author(s) upon submission via the conference website. The type of submission influences the review criteria as described in the types of contributions. Accepted contributions must be presented at the conference. Accepted full research papers will be published in proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series; see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs. Accepted short contributions will be published in a Technical Report of Tallinn University of Technology with an ISBN number. LNCS formatting guidelines should be followed both for full research papers and short contributions. Workshops ========= One workshop will be held as a sattellite to TESTCOM/FATES'07 on June 26, 2007: International Workshop on Web Services - Modeling and Testing (WS-MaTe 2007), http://www.selab.isti.cnr.it/ws-mate2007. Important dates =============== * February 18, 2007: Deadline for submission of abstracts of full research papers * February 25, 2007: Deadline for submission of full research papers * April 2, 2007: Notification about acceptance of full research papers * April 13, 2007: Camera-ready copy of full research papers * April 19, 2007: Deadline for submission of work-in-progress, position papers, short experience reports, tool demonstrations, tutorial proposals * April 30, 2007: Notification about acceptance of work-in-progress, position papers, short experience reports, tool demonstrations, tutorial proposals * June 26-29, 2007: Conference Steering Committee of TESTCOM ============================= John Derrick, Chairman, U of Sheffield, UK Ana R. Cavalli, INT, France Roland Groz, LSR-IMAG, France Alexandre Petrenko, CRIM, Canada Program Committee Co-Chairs =========================== Alexandre Petrenko, CRIM, Canada (TESTCOM), General Chair Margus Veanes, Microsoft Research, USA (TESTCOM) Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Research, USA (FATES) Jan Tretmans, Embedded Systems Institute, the Netherlands (FATES) Program Committee ================= Bernhard K. Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria Paul Baker, Motorola, UK Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy Gregor v. Bochmann, U of Ottawa, Canada Juris Borzovs, U of Latvia, Latvia Rachel Cardell-Oliver, U of W. Australia, Australia Richard Castanet, LABRI, France Sarolta Dibuz, Ericsson, Hungary Khaled El-Fakih, American U of Sharjah, UAE Jens Grabowski, U of Goettingen, Germany Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Research, USA (co-chair) Marie-Claude Gaudel, U of Paris-Sud, France Rob Hierons, Brunel U, UK Teruo Higashino, Osaka U, Japan Dieter Hogrefe, U of Goettingen, Germany Antti Huima, Conformiq Software Ltd., Finland Thierry Jeron, IRISA Rennes, France Ferhat Khendek, Concordia U, Canada Myungchul Kim, ICU, Korea Hartmut Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany Victor Kuliamin, ISP RAS, Russia David Lee, Ohio State U, USA Bruno Legeard, Leirios, France Alexander Letichevsky, Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine Giulio Maggiore, Telecom Italia Mobile, Italy Brian Nielsen, U of Aalborg, Denmark Manuel Nunez, UC de Madrid, Spain Ian Oliver, Nokia Research, Finland Doron Peled, U of Bar-Ilan, Israel Alexandre Petrenko, CRIM, Canada, General Chair Alexander Pretschner, ETH, Switzerland Harry Robinson, Google, USA Vlad Rusu, IRISA Rennes, France Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Kenji Suzuki, U of Electro-Communications, Japan Jan Tretmans, Embedded Systems Institute, the Netherlands (co-chair) Andreas Ulrich, Siemens, Germany Hasan Ural, U of Ottawa, Canada Mark Utting, U of Waikato, New Zealand M Umit Uyar, City U of New York, USA Juri Vain, Tallinn U of Technology, Estonia Margus Veanes, Microsoft Research, USA (co-chair) Carsten Weise, Ericsson, Germany Burkhart Wolff, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland Jianping Wu, Tsinghua U, China Nina Yevtushenko, Tomsk State U, Russia Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Local organization ================== TESTCOM/FATES 2007 is organized by Institute of Cybernetics, a research institute of Tallinn University of Technology, and the Department of Computer Science of TUT. Local organisers are Juhan Ernits, Monika Perkmann, Jaagup Irve, Ando Saabas, Kristi Uustalu and Tarmo Uustalu. Venue ===== TESTCOM/FATES'07 will take place in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia with beautiful Medieval Old Town; see http://ioc.ee/testcom-fates-forte07 for details TESTCOM/FATES'07 is co-located with FORTE'07, the 26th IFIP Int. Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems, see http://cs.ttu.ee/FORTE07. The participants registered to one of these conferences may freely attend the technical sessions of the other. Further Information =================== For further information see the TESTCOM/FATES'07 Web site: http://testcom-fates07.ioc.ee or contact the program committee co-chairs by sending an e-mail to testcom-fates07@ioc.ee