CfP: LT 2014 - The Third International Workshop on Large-Scale Testing

[Jack ZhenMing Jiang]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Third International Workshop on Large-Scale Testing
Co-located with ICPE 2014
March 22, 2014
Dublin, Ireland
http://lt2014.eecs.yorku.ca/
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Modern software systems ranging from e-commerce websites to
telecommunication infrastructures must service millions of users. Many
field problems of these systems are due to their inability to scale to
field workloads, not due to feature bugs. In addition to conventional
functional testing, these systems must be tested with large volumes of
concurrent requests (called the load) to ensure the quality of these
systems. The theme of this year’s workshop is Large-Scale Testing,
which includes all different objectives and strategies of testing
large-scale software systems using load. Examples of large-scale testing
include live upgrade testing, load testing, high availability testing,
operational profile testing, performance testing, reliability testing,
stability testing and stress testing.

Large-Scale testing is a difficult task requiring a great understanding of
the system under test. Practitioners face many challenges such as tooling
(choosing/implementing the testing tools), environments (software, hardware
setup) and time (limited time to design, test, and analyze). Yet, little
research is done in the software engineering research. Large-scale testing
is gaining more importance, as an increasing number of services are being
offered in the cloud to millions or even billions of users. This workshop
brings together software testing researchers, practitioners and tool developers
to discuss the challenges and opportunities of conducting research on
large-scale software testing. Our ultimate goal is to grow an active community
around this important and practical research topic.

We solicit the following two tracks of papers: Technical track (4 pages) and
Industrial track (2 pages). Papers should follow the two-column ACM conference
publication format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)
and need to be submitted electronically via EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lt2014).
Accepted papers will be published in the ICPE 2014 Proceedings. Submitted
papers can be research papers, position papers, case studies or experience
reports addressing issues including but not limited to the following:

- Efficient and cost-effective test executions;

- Rapid and scalable analysis of the test results;

- Case studies and experience reports on large-scale testing;

- Leveraging cloud computing to conduct large-scale testing;

- Large-scale testing on emerging systems (e.g., adaptive/autonomic
systems or cloud services);

- Taxonomies of testing large-scale software systems;

- Large-scale testing in the context of agile software development process.

Important Dates
- Intent to Submit: January 6th, 2014
- Research Papers: January 13th, 2014
- Industry Papers: February 1st, 2014
- Author Notification: February 13th, 2014
- Workshop date: March 22nd, 2014

General Chairs:
- Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada
- Thomas Cerqueus, University College Dublin, Ireland

Program Chairs:
- Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang, York University, Canada
- Eduardo Cunha de Almeida, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Program Committee
- Eduardo Almeida (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
- Bram Adams (cole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
- Christoph Csallner (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
- Shaun Dunning (NetApp Inc., USA)
- Gregory R. Franks (Carleton University, Canada)
- Ahmed E. Hassan (Queen’s University, Canada)
- Samuel Kounev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
- Haroon Malik (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Jerome A. Rolia (HP Labs, USA)
- Stefanie Scherzinger (OTH Regensburg, Germany)
- Gerson Sunye (University of Nantes, France)
- Anthony Ventresque (University College Dublin, Ireland)