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Final Call for Papers - RefTest Berlin Workshop, 25th March 2011 The submission deadline for this workshop has been extended until the 11th January 2011, papers are invited in either 2 or 8 page formats. Please see below for further details. RefTest (REFactoring & TESTing) Workshop http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrjem/berlin/berlinhome.htm In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) Refactoring and its testing implications/crossover have emerged over recent years to become important inter-related research topics with high industrial resonance. Many issues and problems still remain unexplored in these two highly-related fields incorporating topics such as the theoretical underpinnings of refactoring, TDD, empirical studies, refactoring of test artefacts, code smell analysis and patterns (both design and micro) to name just a few. Refactoring also has a growing importance in the monitoring of systems evolution and the propensity of systems to minimise maintenance effort and fault propensity; the over-riding question, still largely unanswered, is whether we can quantify the benefits of refactoring. The purpose and goal of the REFTEST Workshop is to bring together industrial practitioners and academics in a setting where current issues in refactoring and test crossover can be presented, relationships with testing discussed, results from current research in refactoring/testing disseminated and future directions distilled. Topics of interest for the RefTest Berlin workshop are as follows: Industrial System Experiences with Refactoring/TDD Refactoring Theory Empirical Studies of Refactoring (OSS) Refactoring Test artefacts Code Smell Evaluation and Eradication Design Patterns and Refactoring Micro-patterns and Refactoring Refactoring and System Evolution Software Metrics for evaluating the Refactoring process Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit full papers (8 pages) or short papers (2 pages) in IEEE two-column format. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. At least one of the authors of accepted papers should attend the Workshop to present the paper. Papers will be published in the IEEE digital library and we are in talks with a Journal to produce a special issue of the best papers. All papers should conform to the IEEE formatting guidelines (details on the Workshop website); please submit all papers by email to [log in to unmask] Submission Dates: Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 11th January, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: Monday, 31st January, 2011 Camera Ready: Monday, 14th February, 2011 Further Information: RefTest Berlin Workshop: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrjem/berlin/berlinhome.htm Venue: Grand Hotel Esplanade, Berlin, Germany ICST 2011: http://sites.google.com/site/icst2011/home RefTest Network: http://www.reftest.org/ Janet McFall Project Assistant RefTest Network School of Information Systems, Computing & Mathematics Brunel University, UK