Goal

For any concerns about research and technical papers, please contact program co-chairs :
For any concerns about the industrial contributions, please contact Industrial Chairs :

Authors of best papers from the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for a special issue of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability, a Wiley journal.

Scope

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Software testing theory and practice
• Model-based testing
• Domain specific testing, e.g.:
• Security testing
• web services testing
• Database testing
• Embedded software testing
• And OO software testing
• Verification & validation
• Quality assurance
• Model checking
• Metrics & Empirical studies
• Fuzz testing
• Inspections
• Tools
• Testability and diagnosability
• Design for testability
• Testing education
• Testing in multidisciplinary applications
• Technology transfer
• Model-driven engineering and testing
• Agile/iterative/incremental testing processes
• Open source software/3^rdparty software testing
• Software reliability assessment
• Performance & QoS testing
• Standards
• Success stories

Review Process

Selection will be made by a session committee of ICST.

Format

Research Track
We invite submission of research and technical papers that describe original and significant work in the research and practice of software testing, verification and validation. Case studies and empirical research are welcome. Papers must neither have been previously accepted for publication nor submitted in another conference or journal. The ICST 2012 research track accepts only full research papers. Short contributions (short papers) are not accepted.
Research papers must conform to the two-column IEEE conference publication format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting), must be submitted in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages.

Industry Track
There are two paper formats: full length (ten pages) and short (four pages). Full length papers should present significant achievements and advances in industrial software testing, verification, or validation. Papers with metrics that quantify effects on time, cost, and quality are preferred. Short papers should concentrate on experience reports or discuss open problems or challenges. All contributions will receive a full program committee peer review. Accepted and presented contributions will be part of the published conference proceedings. The evaluation criteria for industry papers are based less on the originality of the technical contribution, and more on its relevance for practice soundness of the presented results, and implications for research.
Industry papers must conform to the two-column IEEE conference publication format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting), must be submitted in pdf format and must not exceed 10 or 4 pages, respectively.

Important dates

Papers (both research and industry tracks)

Submission of abstracts	October 28, 2011
Submission of full papers	November 6, 2011
Notification of acceptance	December 28, 2011
Camera ready paper	January 20, 2012
Date of conference	April 18-20, 2012

All submission deadlines are 23:59:59 Samoa (Apia) Time.

How to submit?

Submissions will be handled via EasyChair. To submit, follow this link.

Contact

For any concerns about research and technical papers, please contact program co-chairs :

Antonia Bertolino at antonia.bertolino@isti.cnr.it

Yvan Labiche at labiche@sce.carleton.ca

For any concerns about the industrial contributions, please contact Industrial Chairs :

Peter Zimmerer at peter.zimmerer@siemens.com

Saurabh Sinha at saurabhsinha@in.ibm.com

Thomas J. Ostrand at ostrand@research.att.com