CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 

2nd IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, 
Verification and Validation (ICST 2009) 

April 1-4, 2009, Denver, Colorado

http://bitterroot.vancouver.wsu.edu/icst2009/

Submission of abstracts: 26 September, 2008
Submission of full papers: 3 October, 2008 

We are entering a golden age of software testing and 
validation. The amount of new and exciting research is 
growing quickly with new scientists joining the field, 
more research projects starting, and numerous recent 
workshops on various testing research topics. In addition 
to research into software testing, the increasing 
competitiveness of software, the growing dominance of 
web-based software, the ubiquitous nature of embedded 
software, and the growth in security vulnerabilities caused
by software problems, is causing industry to spend 
dramatically more resources on testing.

The IEEE International Conference on Software Testing 
Verification and Validation (ICST) is the premier conference
in all areas related to software quality and the success of 
the first edition in 2008 demonstrated the growth of the 
field: 214 submitted papers, 52 full length papers, and over 
200 attendees.

The second edition will build on the success of ICST 2008 
and leverage the many exciting advances in software testing
to create dynamic exchanges of new ideas and industrial 
applications. The theme of ICST 2009 is comprehensive 
testing, which means that we view testing in a holistic way
and encourage contributions on all facets of testing:

Topics
  * Developer unit testing
  * Integration testing
  * End-to-end testing
  * Validation and verification
  * System testing
  * Regression testing
  * Model-based testing
  * Usability testing
  * Security testing
  * Quality assurance
  * Inspections
  
Techniques
  * Test data generation
  * Test oracles (new)
  * Metrics
  * Testing theory
  * Empirical studies
  
Systems
  * Embedded and real-time software
  * Concurrent software
  * Web applications

We invite original, high-quality research papers and 
industrial experience papers in all areas of software 
testing, verification and validation. We also invite 
proposals for workshops to be co-arranged with the
conference.

General Chair:   Anneliese Andrews  (andrews@cs.du.edu) 
Program Chairs:  Jeff Offutt        (offutt@gmu.edu)
                 Per Runeson        (per.runeson@cs.lth.se)
Workshop Chairs: Mark Harman        (Mark.Harman@kcl.ac.uk)
                 Zheng Li           (Zheng.Li@kcl.ac.uk)
                 Matthew Rutherford (mjr@cs.du.edu)
Industry Chair:  Wolfgang Grieskamp

Important dates:
Submission of workshop proposals: 5 September, 2008
Submission of abstracts: 26 September, 2008
Submission of full papers: 3 October, 2008 
Notification: 19 December, 2008 
Camera-ready: 16 January, 2009 
Dates of Conference: April 1 - April 4, 2009

For ICST 2009 submission guidelines and all additional up 
to date information, please visit 
http://bitterroot.vancouver.wsu.edu/icst2009/