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                        CALL FOR PAPERS
 The International Workshop on Load Testing of Large Software Systems
                     Co-located with ICST 2012
                         April 17, 2012
                        Montreal, Canada
               http://sailhome.cs.queensu.ca/lt2012/
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Modern software systems ranging from e-commerce websites to
communication
infrastructures must service millions of users. Many field problems of
these
systems are due to their inability to scale to field workloads, not
due to
feature bugs. To assure the quality of these systems, load testing
simulates
thousands or millions of users performing tasks at the same time. A
load test
can last from several hours to a few days, during which gigabytes of
performance counter and log data is generated.

This one-day workshop brings together software testing researchers,
practitioners, and developers of load testing tools to discuss the
challenges
and opportunities of performing load testing research on large scale
software
systems. Our ultimate goal is to establish and grow an active
community around
this important and practical research topic.

Papers should be at most 5 pages using the two-column IEEE conference
publication format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/
formatting) and
need to be submitted electronically via EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lt2012). Accepted papers
will be
published in the ICST 2012 Proceedings. Submitted papers can be
research
papers, position papers, case studies or experience reports addressing
issues
including but not limited to the following:

- Optimal planning of load tests to reduce the number of needed
resources to
  conduct large scale load tests;

- Development of realistic load tests;

- Optimized execution of load tests to reduce the number and duration
of tests;

- Efficient analysis of the load test results (e.g., large volume of
logs and
  performance counters through data mining techniques);

- Load testing of adaptive/autonomic systems, systems in the cloud;

- Leveraging cloud computing to conduct load testing;

- Leveraging the extensive software testing literature to solve load
testing
  challenges;

- Case studies and experience reports on load testing large scale
systems.



Important Dates
- Intent to Submit:        January 20th, 2012
- Submission Deadline:     January 27th, 2012
- Author Notification:     February 25th, 2012
- Camera Ready:            March 3rd, 2012
- Workshop date:           April 17th, 2012



Organizers
- Jack ZhenMing Jiang, Queen's University, Canada
- Ahmed E. Hassan, Queen's University, Canada
- Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada

Program Committee
- Alberto Avritzer (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)
- Bram Adams (Queen's University, Canada)
- Andre Bondi (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)
- Denny Chiu (Research In Motion, Canada)
- Christoph Csallner (University of Texas at Arlington, USA )
- Shaun Dunning (NetApp Inc., USA)
- Gregory R. Franks (Carleton University, Canada)
- Vahid Garousi (University of Calgary, Canada)
- Mark Grechanik (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
- Samuel Kounev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
- Diwakar Krishnamurthy (University of Calgary, Canada)
- Jerome A. Rolia (HP Labs, USA)
- Willem Visser (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)