Fifth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation
The IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and
Validation (ICST) is the premier conference in all areas related to software
quality. Software systems present unique engineering challenges to the tester, not
least because they can exhibit non-determinism and
emergent behaviour. No other engineering artefact is more closely intertwined
with the human activities, resulting in complex hybrid systems that involve
software, human judgement and, sometimes, political, legal and social
processes.
As a result,
software verification & validation, including testing, inspections, model
analysis, safety certification, etc. draws upon a wide spectrum of disciplines,
including engineering, mathematics and also psychology. It touches on all
aspects of computer science and software engineering research and impacts on
almost all software activities.
ICST seeks to address the problems in verification and validation, by
bringing together researchers and practitioners for a conference that includes
all aspects of software testing, as it is most widely construed. Thus, ICST welcomes
research papers as well as industrial experience reports
from software development and testing practitioners. For the research papers,
ICST seeks high-quality original work. For the industrial papers, ICST seeks
papers that present real-world experience from which others can benefit.
Industrial software testing, verification, and validation pose additional challenges
that must be taken into account when setting up new processes and tools successfully such as:
the complexity of the system to be developed; evolving software, legacy code; integration of third-party components;
requirements from a certification process; version management; product line engineering; agile development processes;
distribution of teams and others.