Call for Papers
RefTest (REFactoring & TESTing) Workshop
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrjem/berlin/berlinhome.htm
21st-25th March, 2011, Berlin, Germany
In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Testing, Verification and Validation
We are currently awaiting notification of the exact date for this one-day Workshop (21st-25th March).
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 to appear on the Workshop website shortly see below); please submit all papers by email to [log in to unmask]
Submission Dates:
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 4th 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
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