RefTest (REFactoring & TESTing) Workshop
May 21st, 2012, Malmo, Sweden
In conjunction with XP2012: 13th International Conference on Agile Software Development
Call for Papers
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 Malmo workshop are as follows:
Industrial System Experiences with Refactoring/TDD
Pair Programming
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 (max 8 pages) or position/discussion papers (max 4 pages) in Springer format, guidelines: http://www.springer.com/series/7911 All submissions will be peer-reviewed. At least one of the authors of accepted papers should attend the Workshop to present the paper. We welcome academic and industrial contributions.
We are currently in discussions with the International Journal of Agile and Extreme Software Development to produce a special issue from selected papers from the Workshop.
Organisers:
Steve Counsell, Brunel University.
Stephen Swift, Brunel University.
Program Committee
TBA
Submission Dates
Submission Deadline: Friday, 30th March, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, 16th April, 2012
Final Version: Thursday, 10th May, 2012
Papers should be submitted as PDF files to [log in to unmask]
Venue & Further Information
Venue: http://www.malmomassan.se/en
XP 2012: http://xp2012.org/
RefTest Network: http://www.reftest.org/
RefTest Malmo Workshop: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrjem/reftestmalmo/malmohome.htm
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