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IFIP TC 6 / WG 6.1 The 16th IFIP International Conference on Testing of
Communicating Systems
(TestCom 2004)
St Anne's College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 17-19 March 2004
Call for Papers
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
TestCom is a series of international working conferences on testing
communicating systems.
TestCom focuses on the testing of communicating systems within all
application domains.
Examples of such application domains include, but are not limited to, the
automobile industry,
avionics, banking, e-commerce, health, military, and telecommunications
systems.
TestCom will provide a forum for researchers, vendors and users to review,
discuss and learn about
new approaches, concepts and experiences in the field of testing of
communicating systems.
The conference will consist of tutorial sessions, presentations of reviewed
and invited papers,
industrial experience reports, demonstrations of tools, and panel and
discussion sessions.
TestCom 2004 is organized by Brunel University (UK) and LSR-IMAG (France).
TOPICS OF INTEREST 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 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, Test
specification, Test derivation,
Validation and Analysis, Applications of testing theory, Test standards,
Test tools.
* Issues in testing within particular application domains.
* Service platforms: Vocal servers, PF for Web services, OSA/Parlay, Jain etc.
SEVERAL TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS are solicited
* Full papers research or practice results (no more than 16 pages)
* Industrial experience reports (no more than 16 pages)
* Position statements/poster papers 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 volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For
author information see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
IMPORTANT DATES
* October 13, 2003 - Submission deadline for full papers and industrial
experience reports.
* December 1, 2003 - Notification of acceptance.
* December 15, 2003 - Submission deadline for position/poster papers.
* January 5, 2004 - Camera-ready copy of full papers and industrial
experience reports.
* January 9, 2004 - Proposals for tool demonstrations.
* Conference: 17-19 March 2004.
STEERING COMMITTEE
* S. T. Chanson (Hong Kong University, China)
* R. Groz (LSR-IMAG, France)
* G. Leduc, Chairman (University of Liege, Belgium)
* A. Petrenko (CRIM, Canada)
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
* R. M. Hierons (Brunel University, UK)
* R. Groz (LSR-IMAG, France)
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBC)
* G. v. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada
* A. R. Cavalli, INT, France
* J. Clark, York University, UK
* R. Dssouli, Concordia University, Canada
* S. Dibuz, Ericsson, Hungary
* P. Frankl, Polytechnic University, USA
* J. Grabowski, University of Göttingen, Germany
* M. Harman, Brunel University, UK
* K. Harrison, Praxis Critical Systems, UK
* T. Higashino, Osaka University, Japan
* D. Hogrefe, University of Goettingen, Germany
* T. Jeron, IRISA, France
* M. Kim, ICU University, Korea
* D. Lee, Bell Labs Research, USA
* G. Maggiore, TIM, Italy
* J. Offutt, George Mason University, USA
* I. Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
* K. Suzuki, Kennisbron Co., Ltd., Japan
* J. Tretmans, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
* A. Ulrich, Siemens, Germany
* H. Ural, University of Ottawa, Canada
* M. U. Uyar, City University of New York, USA
* J. Wegener, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
* A. Wiles, ETSI, France
* J. Wu , Tsinghua University, China
* N. Yevtushenko, Tomsk State University, Russia
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: TBC
An initial web site may be found at:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~csstrmh/TestCom2004/TestCom2004.html
For further information contact: [log in to unmask]
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Dr Robert M. Hierons
Department of Information Systems and Computing,
Brunel University,
Uxbridge, Middlesex,
UB8 3PH United Kingdom
phone: +44 (0) 1895 816281
fax: +44 (0) 1895 251 686
email: [log in to unmask]
homepage: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~csstrmh/
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