Call for Papers TAIC PART 2018 TAIC PART 2018 – 13th Workshop on Testing: Academia-Industry Collaboration, Practice and Research Techniques 2018/ April, 2018, Västerås, Sweden Co-located with IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2018) +++ Important Dates +++ Submission: January 7, 2018 Notification: February 11, 2018 Workshop: February 25, 2018 +++ Theme and Goals +++ TAIC PART is a workshop co-located with ICST 2018 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 2018 paper submission site: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=taicpart2018. All accepted papers will be part of the ICST joint workshop proceedings published in the IEEE Digital Library. +++ Organization and Contact +++ + Takashi Kitamura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan (Program Co-Chair) + Emil Alegroth, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden (General Chair) + Guowei Yang, Texas State University, USA (Program Co-Chair) If you have any questions or require more information on TAIC PART 2018, please visit 2017/ or write to Emil.Alegroth@Bth.se. +++ Program Committee (to be extended) +++ Tao Yue, Simula, Norway Thomas Bach, Heidelberg University, Germany Hirohisa Aman, Ehime University, Japan Rudolf Ramler, SCCH, Austria EunHye Choi, AIST, Japan Xiao Qu, ABB Corporate Research, USA Xusheng Xiao, Case Western Reserve Uni., USA Hongyu Zhang, The University of Newcastle, Australia Shaukat Ali, Simula, Norway Cyrille Artho, KTH, Sweden Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Blekinge institute of Tech., Sweden Haruto Tanno, NTT, Japan Pekka, Aho, VTT, Finland Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson, Sweden Emilie Engström, Lund University, Sweden Vahid Garousi, Hacettepe Uni., Turkey Mark Harman, University College London, GB Mika Mäntylä, University of Oulu, Finland Stefan Mohacsi, Atos, Austria Reinhold Plösch, Hohannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Travassos Guilherme Horta, Universidade Federal do Rio, Brazil Peter Zimmerer, Siemens Corporate Tech. Germany Manuel Oriol, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Hasan Sözer, Özegin University, Turkey Darko Marinov, University of Illinois, USA Elizabeta Fourneret, University of Franche-Comte, France +++ 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