Call for Papers TAIC PART 2017 TAIC PART 2017 – 12th Workshop on Testing: Academia-Industry Collaboration, Practice and Research Techniques http://www.taicpart.org/ March, 2017, Tokyo, Japan Co-located with IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2017) +++ Important Dates +++ Submission: December 8, 2016 Notification: January 2, 2017 Workshop: March 13, 2017 +++ Theme and Goals +++ TAIC PART is a workshop co-located with ICST 2017 that aims to forge collaboration between industry and academia on the challenging and exciting problem of real-world software testing. It is promoted by representatives of both industry and academia, bringing together industrial software engineers and testers with researchers working on theory and practice of software testing. The goals of TAIC PART range from the articulation of research questions in the field of software testing and analysis to practical challenges faced in industry. The common theme is the discussion and advancement of approaches and methods for sustainable collaboration between academia and industry in software testing. +++ Topics of Interest +++ TAIC PART invites submissions relevant to practice and research including + Industry experience reports: practical and generalizable insights into how to apply and extend existing approaches to software testing and analysis + Research methods for collaborative research: ways that industry and academia can collaborate to further knowledge on testing, verification and validation + Industrial challenges with real-world testing: describe a real-world software testing problem for which industry seeks help from academia or vice versa + Knowledge exchange between industry and academia: how can new results and knowledge be exchanged between the two partners +++ Submission and Proceedings +++ + Regular Papers (6 pages): Experience reports, research papers, longer challenge papers (extension up to 10 pages may be possible on request) + Fast Abstracts (up to 2 pages): Challenges in practice and research, work in progress, positions statements Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper through the TAIC PART 2017 paper submission site: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=taicpart2017. All accepted papers will be part of the ICST joint workshop proceedings published in the IEEE Digital Library. Best paper award: Win an iPad! The best paper will be selected from the submitted regular papers based on the reviews by the program committee. +++ Organization and Contact +++ + Takashi Kitamura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan (General Chair) + Emil Alegroth, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden (Program Co-Chair) + Rudolf Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH), Austria (Program Co-Chair) If you have any questions or require more information on TAIC PART 2017, please visit 2017/ or write to t.kitamura(at)aist.go.jp. +++ Program Committee (to be extended) +++ Pekka Aho, VTT, Finland Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Emelie Engstrom, Lund University, Sweden Vladimir Entin, OMICRON electronics, Austria Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Elizabeta Fourneret, Smartesting, France Vahid Garousi, Hacettepe University, Turkey Maurizio Leotta, University of Genova, Italy Zheng Li, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China Bogdan Marculescu, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Mika Mantyla, University of Oulu, Finland Stefan Mohacsi, Atos, Austria Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Manuel Oriol, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland Reinhold Ploesch, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Rakesh Rana, Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre, Ireland Filippo Ricca, University of Genova, Italy Ina Schieferdecker, TU Berlin, Germany Hasan Sozer, Ozyegin University, Turkey Haruto Tanno, NTT, Japan Guilherme Horta Travassos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Matthias Woehrle, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany Peter Zimmerer, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany +++ Steering Committee +++ Emelie Engstrom, Lund University, Sweden Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Mark Harman, University College London, United Kingdom Ina Schieferdecker, TU Berlin, Germany