IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automation of Software Test, Austin, Vereinigte Staaten

Abbrevation

AST

Link

http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2016/

City

Austin

Country

United States

Deadline Paper

2016-01-22

Start Date

2016-05-14

End Date

2016-05-15

Abstract

In software development practice, testing accounts for as much as 50% of the total development effort. It is therefore imperative to reduce the cost and improve the effectiveness of software testing by automating the testing process. In the past decades, a great amount of research effort has been spent on automatic test case generation, automatic test oracles, etc. Test automation is also becoming an important part of software testing practice. The workshop is the 11th edition of the successful AST workshops held at ICSE conferences. It will provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, understanding of the problems, visions for the future, and promising solutions to the problems. The workshop will also provide a platform for researchers and developers of testing tools to work together to identify the problems in the theory and practice of software test automation and to set an agenda and lay the foundation for future development. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop focuses on bridging the gap between the theory and practice of software test automation. The topics cover all aspects related to software test automation. In particular, papers on the following topics are covered, but are not limited to: 1) Methodology: Software test automation in the context of various software development methodologies. 2) Technology: Automation of various test techniques and methods for testing related activities, as well as for testing various types of software applications. 3) Tools and environments: Issues in the development, operation, maintenance and evolution of software testing tools and environments, and their integration and inter– operation with other types of software development and maintenance tools and runtime support env ironments and platforms. 4) Experiments, empirical studies and experience reports: Experiments, empirical studies of software test automation, as well as reports on real experiences in using automated testing techniques, methods and tools in industry. 5) Identification of problems and visions of the future: The identification of problems that hamper wider adoption of automated test techniques, methods and tools and the analysis and specification of the requirements on automated software testing.