call for papers SBST 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST'10) held in conjunction with International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2010) April 6, 2010, Paris, France http://www.cse.unl.edu/~myra/sbst2010/ Submission of papers: February 9, 2010 Papers will be published as a proceedings in the IEEE digital library. Search-based software testing is the use of random or directed search techniques (hill climbing, genetic algorithms etc.) to address problems in the software testing and verification and validation domain. There has been an explosion of activity in the search-based software testing field of late, particularly on test data generation. Recent work has also focused on other aspects such as model-based testing, real-time testing, interaction testing, testing of service-oriented architectures, test case prioritization, bug fixing and generation of whole tests (not only test data). Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit short (4 pages) or full papers (10 pages) to the workshop, describing original research, experience or tools. Papers should address a problem in the software testing and/or verification and validation domain and should approach the solution to the problem using a search strategy. Search-based techniques are taken to include (but are not limited to) random search, local search (i.e. hill climbing, simulated annealing etc.), evolutionary algorithms (i.e. genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, genetic programming), ant colony optimization and particle swarm optimization. While experimental results are important for research papers, contributions that do not contain results, but rather present new approaches, concepts and/or theory will also be considered. The workshop will have a highly interactive format that encourages discussion about the presented papers and about general themes in search-based software testing. There will be prizes available for best papers; more information on the workshop home page. General chair: Robert Feldt (robert.feldt@gmail.com) Program chair: Myra Cohen (myra@cse.unl.edu) Program committee: See home page Important dates: Submission of papers: February 9, 2010 Notification: March 5, 2010 Camera-Ready: March 19, 2010 Date of Workshop: April 6, 2009 For SBST'10 submission guidelines and all additional up to date information, please visit http://www.cse.unl.edu/~myra/sbst2010/ For ICST 2010 information, please visit http://vps.it-sudparis.eu/icst2010/