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***** Third International Workshop on *****
***** SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE (SOQUA 2006) *****
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***** http://2006.soqua.org/ *****
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* co-located with ACM SIGSOFT 2006 / FSE 14 *
* Portland Oregon, USA, November 6, 2006 *
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=== THEME AND GOALS ===

The goal of software engineering is to achieve high-quality software
in a cost-effective, timely, and reproducible manner. Advances in
technology are enabling reductions in cost and schedule, but their effect
on software quality assurance often remains unknown. Object-oriented
concepts, component technology, components off the shelf (COTS) and
open source software can dramatically reduce development time; however,
assuring the quality of systems using these concepts is problematic.

The task of measuring and assuring the quality of software systems is
getting harder with the advent of new software development processes.
As an example, agile methods explicitly allow customers to change
requirements very late in the project. Agile methods also take a "light
weight" approach to project documentation and software testing. Reducing
process overhead can improve response to change and speed product
delivery, but may also adversely affect the project's risk profile. Little
data exists on the quality of industrial systems developed using Agile
methods.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers,
and practitioners to discuss and evaluate the latest challenges and
breakthroughs in the field of software quality assurance and to identify
future trends and problems in this area.


=== CONTRIBUTIONS ===

Contributions related to software quality assurance, especially from
one of the following fields, are welcome from academia and industry:

- Software testing: deterministic, random, oracles, tools, automation,
  processes, and standards
- Formal methods: program analysis, model checking, and verification
- Metrics for software quality assurance
- Reviews, inspections, and walkthroughs
- Software quality assurance and its relation to knowledge management
- Software quality assurance and agile processes
- Processes and their relation to software quality assurance

Contributions can have the form of position papers, full technical papers,
and short papers. They must be unpublished and not under consideration
for publication elsewhere.

Papers and talks must be in English. Papers must not exceed 4 pages
(position and short papers) resp. 8 pages (full technical papers) in
ACM format (including all text, references, appendices, figures, and
tables). Format papers according to the ACM proceedings style and submit
them in Adobe portable document format (PDF) with all fonts embedded.

The proceedings with all accepted papers will be published in the
ACM Digital Library (decision pending) and will be available to all
authors of accepted papers prior to the workshop (in electronic form).
Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign an ACM copyright form.

The proceedings will probably be published in the ACM Digital Library
(decision pending) and be available to authors of accepted papers before
the workshop in electronic form.

Submissions should be made online via the submission site. This site
will open some weeks before the end of the submission deadline. It will
be referenced on the workshop homepage.


=== IMPORTANT DATES ===

Submission of Abstract: July 7, 2006
Submission of Papers: July 14, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2006
Camera Ready Copy: September 8, 2006
Workshop: November 6, 2006


=== COMMITTEES ===

STEERING AND ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CHAIR

 Johannes Mayer (Ulm University)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

 Neelam Gupta (The University of Arizona, USA)
 Yves Ledru (LSR/IMAG, University of Grenoble, France)

STEERING COMMITTEE

 T.Y. Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
 Hans-Dieter Ehrich (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
 Patrick J. Schroeder (Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA)
 Franz Schweiggert (Ulm University, Germany)
 Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

 Ilinca Ciupa (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
 Ralph Guderlei (Ulm University, Germany)
 Changhai Nie (Southeast University, China)
 Teade Punter (LaQuSo - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

 Silvia Abrahão (Valencia University of Technology, Spain)
 Paul Ammann (George Mason University, USA)
 T.Y. Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
 Giovanni Denaro (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
 Hans-Dieter Ehrich (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
 Wolfgang Grieskamp (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA)
 Sarfraz Khurshid (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
 Darko Marinov (University of Illinois, USA)
 Oscar Pastor (Valencia University of Technology, Spain)
 Mauro Pezzè (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy)
 Mario Piattini (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
 Lori Pollock (University of Delaware, USA)
 Franz Schweiggert (Ulm University, Germany)
 Christel Seguin (ONERA centre de Toulouse, France)
 Gabi Taentzer (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
 Willem Visser (RIACS/NASA Ames, USA)
 Bernard Wong (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
 Eric Wong (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
 Andreas Zeller (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
 Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

=== REGISTRATION ===

Registration for the workshop is only available as part of the main
conference (see http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/fse-14/).