X-Received: by 10.58.118.231 with SMTP id kp7mr3713924veb.36.1387328490636; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:01:30 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.246.133 with SMTP id xw5mr187835obc.14.1387328490599; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:01:30 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!ie8no21278053qab.0!news-out.google.com!l9ni1346qay.0!nntp.google.com!ie8no21278040qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.software.measurement Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:01:30 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.196.130.188; posting-account=QS0_dgoAAADo1cOhdMdfYLXXaKCwkqId NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.196.130.188 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <09369df5-18b3-4e85-8223-0061110de569@googlegroups.com> Subject: CfP: LT 2014 - The Third International Workshop on Large-Scale Testing From: Jack ZhenMing Jiang Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 01:01:30 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 5645 X-Received-Body-CRC: 876482598 Xref: csiph.com comp.software.measurement:35 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Workshop on Large-Scale Testing Co-located with ICPE 2014 March 22, 2014 Dublin, Ireland http://lt2014.eecs.yorku.ca/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Modern software systems ranging from e-commerce websites to telecommunication 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. In addition to conventional functional testing, these systems must be tested with large volumes of concurrent requests (called the load) to ensure the quality of these systems. The theme of this year=92s workshop is Large-Scale Testing, which includes all different objectives and strategies of testing large-scale software systems using load. Examples of large-scale testing include live upgrade testing, load testing, high availability testing, operational profile testing, performance testing, reliability testing, stability testing and stress testing. Large-Scale testing is a difficult task requiring a great understanding of the system under test. Practitioners face many challenges such as tooling (choosing/implementing the testing tools), environments (software, hardware setup) and time (limited time to design, test, and analyze). Yet, little research is done in the software engineering research. Large-scale testing is gaining more importance, as an increasing number of services are being offered in the cloud to millions or even billions of users. This workshop brings together software testing researchers, practitioners and tool develo= pers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of conducting research on large-scale software testing. Our ultimate goal is to grow an active commun= ity around this important and practical research topic. We solicit the following two tracks of papers: Technical track (4 pages) an= d Industrial track (2 pages). Papers should follow the two-column ACM confere= nce publication format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templa= tes) and need to be submitted electronically via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dlt2014). Accepted papers will be published in the ICPE 2014 Proceedings. Submitted papers can be research papers, position papers, case studies or experience reports addressing issues including but not limited to the following: - Efficient and cost-effective test executions; - Rapid and scalable analysis of the test results; - Case studies and experience reports on large-scale testing; - Leveraging cloud computing to conduct large-scale testing; - Large-scale testing on emerging systems (e.g., adaptive/autonomic systems or cloud services); - Taxonomies of testing large-scale software systems; - Large-scale testing in the context of agile software development process. Important Dates - Intent to Submit: January 6th, 2014 - Research Papers: January 13th, 2014 - Industry Papers: February 1st, 2014 - Author Notification: February 13th, 2014 - Workshop date: March 22nd, 2014 General Chairs: - Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada - Thomas Cerqueus, University College Dublin, Ireland Program Chairs: - Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang, York University, Canada - Eduardo Cunha de Almeida, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program Committee - Eduardo Almeida (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Bram Adams (cole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada) - Christoph Csallner (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) - Shaun Dunning (NetApp Inc., USA) - Gregory R. Franks (Carleton University, Canada) - Ahmed E. Hassan (Queen=92s University, Canada) - Samuel Kounev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) - Haroon Malik (University of Waterloo, Canada) - Jerome A. Rolia (HP Labs, USA) - Stefanie Scherzinger (OTH Regensburg, Germany) - Gerson Sunye (University of Nantes, France) - Anthony Ventresque (University College Dublin, Ireland)