Testcom 2005: First Call for Papers

10 Sep 2004, submitted by Ferhat Khendek (khendek at ece.concordia.ca)

          Call for papers

	The 18th IFIP International Conference on Testing of Communicating
Systems

  	"Meeting Software Testing"

           Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
	 May 30th June 2nd, 2005

	  Web page: http://testcom2005.encs.concordia.ca/

             SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

               TestCom is a series of international working conferences on
               testing communicating systems, including communication=20
protocols,
               services, distributed platforms, middlware , etc. Application
               domains include, but are not limited to, the automobile=20
industry,
               avionics, banking, e-commerce, health, military, and
               telecommunications systems. Communicating systems testing and
               general-purpose software testing research streams have=20
evolved in
               parallel over the last two decades. Different methods have=
 been
               proposed taking into account the specificities of respective
               domains. The time has come to seek for cross-fertilization=20
between
               these two streams of research. On the other hand,=
 communicating
               systems have evolved from traditional communication=20
protocols to
               more advanced architectures, and new paradigms and=20
architectures
               such as, Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs), Web=20
services,
               Ad-Hoc networks, etc.
               TestCom will provide a forum for researchers, vendors and=20
users to
               review, discuss and learn about new approaches, concepts and
               experiences in the field of testing of communicating systems,
               reactive systems and general-purpose software. The=20
conference will
               consist of tutorial sessions, technical sessions and invited
               papers, industrial experience reports, demonstrations of=
 tools,
               and panel and discussion sessions.


             TOPICS OF INTEREST

               They include, but are not restricted to:

                 - Types of testing: Functional testing, Conformance=
 testing,
                 Interoperability testing, Performance testing,
                 Scalability/Stress testing, Robustness testing, Usability
                 testing, Regression testing.

                 - Industrial testing experience: successes and failures of=
=20
testing
                 communicating systems, case studies, empirical studies.
                 Classes of systems to be tested: Embedded systems,=
 Real-time
                 systems, E-commerce systems, Mobile systems, Protocols,
                 Multimedia systems, Middleware platforms, Next Generation
                 Networks, Distributed systems.

                 - Phases of testing: Test case generation, Test setup and
                 execution, Test selection and management, Test coverage and
                 results analysis.

                 - Theory and Practice of testing: Theoretical frameworks,=
=20
Test
                 specification, Test derivation, Validation and Analysis,
                 Applications of testing theory, Test standards, Test tools.
                 Issues in testing within particular application domains.

                 - New paradigms and architectures:  multimedia services, =
 Web
                 services, OSA/Parlay, Jain, Ad-Hoc networks, etc.

             TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

               Several types of contributions are solicited:

                 - Full papers =AD research or practice results (no more=
 than 16
                 pages)

                 - Industrial experience reports (no more than 16 pages)
                 Position statements/poster papers =AD work in progress (no=
 more
                 than 5 pages)

                 - Tool demonstration proposals

                 - Tutorial proposals

                 Only original papers should be submitted. All full papers=
 and
                 industrial experience reports will be published as a=20
volume of
                 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (to be=20
confirmed). For
                 author information see=20
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

             IMPORTANT DATES:

                 - December 1, 2004: Submission deadline for full papers and
                 industrial experience reports.

                 - February 1, 2005: Notification of acceptance.

                 - March 1, 2005: Camera-ready copy of full papers and=20
industrial
                 experience reports.

                 - March 15, 2005: Submission deadline for position/poster=
=20
papers.

                 - March 15, 2005: Proposals for tool demonstrations.

	    Contacs:
	       Rachida Dssouli (dssouli@ciise.concordia.ca)
	       Ferhat Khendek  (khendek@ece.concordia.ca)


        =20



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