CALL FOR PAPERS Mutation 2011: The 6th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis March 21-25, 2011 (exact date to be determined), Berlin, Germany http://antares.sip.ucm.es/mutation2011/ Co-located with ICST 2011 (4th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation) About Mutation 2011: -------------------------------- Mutation is acknowledged as an important way to assess the fault-finding effectiveness of tests sets. Mutation testing has mostly been applied at the source code level, but more recently, related ideas have also been used to test artifacts described in a considerable variety of notations and at different levels of abstraction. Mutation ideas are used with requirements, formal specifications, architectural design notations, informal descriptions (e.g. use cases) and hardware. Mutation is now established as a major concept in software and systems V&V and uses of mutation are increasing. The goal of the Mutation workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss new and emerging trends in mutation analysis. We invite submissions of both full-length and short-length research papers as well as industry practice papers. Topics of interest: ----------------------- - Mutation-based test adequacy criteria (theory or practical application). - Mutation testing using higher order mutants. - Test-case generation using mutants. - Using mutation in empirical studies (e.g. studies that compare mutation with other testing techniques). - Industrial experience with mutation. - New mutation systems for programming languages (e.g. for languages not yet addressed, or offering improvements on existing ones) and for higher-level descriptive notations (e.g. formal specification notations and architectural design notations). - Novel applications of mutation including mutation for QoS properties (security, performance, etc.). Submissions & Publication: ------------------------------------ Two types of papers can be submitted to the workshop: - Full papers (10 pages): Research, case studies - Short papers (6 pages): Research in progress, tools, experience reports, problem descriptions, new ideas Each submitted paper must conform to the IEEE format and submission guidelines. Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work and to their ability to generate discussions between the participants of the workshop. Each paper will be reviewed by three reviewers, and accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library. Important Dates: --------------------- Submission of full papers: December 22, 2010 Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2011 Date of workshop: March 21-25, 2011 (to be determined) Organization: ----------------- - Lydie du Bousquet, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), France - Mercedes G. Merayo, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain Program Committee: --------------------------- - Roger Alexander , Washington State University, USA - Paul Ammann , George Mason University, USA - Benoit Baudry , INRIA, France - Leonardo Bottaci , University of Hull, UK - Lydie du Bousquet , Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), France - Jeremy Bradbury , Univ. of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada - Zhenyu Chen, Nanjing University, China - Byoungju Choi , EWHA Womans University,South Korea - John A Clark , University of York, UK - James Cordy , Queen's University, Canada - Gordon Fraser , Saarland University,Germany - Mark Harman , King's College, UK - Rob Hierons , Brunel University, UK - Bill Howden , University of California at San Diego, USA - Yue Jia , King's College London, UK - Jose Carlos Maldonado, Universidade de Sao Paolo, Brasil - Mercedes G. Merayo , Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain - Phil McMinn , University of Sheffield, UK - Akbar Siami Namin , Texas Tech University, USA - Jeff Offutt , George Mason University, USA - Macario Polo , University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain - Yves Le Traon, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Eric Wong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Lu Zhang , Peking University, China