**NOTICE (23 Jan 2022)**: Starting from this year, it has been decided to introduce the *double-blind* review process as a pilot. See the double-blind QnA page for more information. By default, author information will not be provided to reviewers on the submission system. Authors are *recommended* to anonymize their papers to hide their identities throughout the review process. However, since it is only a pilot and considering this late notice, revealing author information in the paper is also not a problem. Please note that even those who have already submitted their papers can update the submissions before the submission deadline (28 Jan 2022).

Mutation 2022 aims to be the premier forum for practitioners and researchers to discuss recent advances in the area of mutation analysis and propose new research directions. We invite submissions of both full-length and short-length research papers and especially encourage the submission of industry practice papers.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Evaluation of mutation-based test adequacy criteria, and comparative studies with other test adequacy criteria.
• Formal theoretical analysis of mutation testing.
• Empirical studies on any aspects of mutation testing.
• Mutation based generation of program variants.
• Higher-order mutation testing.
• Mutation testing tools.
• Mutation for mobile, internet, and cloud based systems (e.g., addressing QoS, power consumption, stress testing, performance, etc.).
• Mutation for security and reliability.
• Novel mutation testing applications, and mutation testing in novel domains.
• Industrial experience with mutation testing.
• Mutation for artificial intelligence (e.g., data mutation, model mutation, mutation-based test data generation, etc.)

Types of Submissions

Three types of papers can be submitted to the workshop:

• Full papers (10 pages including references): Research, case studies.
• Short papers (6 pages including references): Research in progress, tools.
• Industrial papers (6 pages including references): Applications and lessons learned in industry.

Each paper must conform to the two columns IEEE conference publication format (please use the letter format template and conference option) and must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair. 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 submission will be reviewed by three reviewers, and all accepted papers will be published as part of the ICST proceedings.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: Fri 28 Jan 2022 (extended)
• Notification of acceptance: Fri 18 Feb 2022 (extended)
• Camera-ready: Fri 4 Mar 2022
• Workshop date: Mon 4 Apr 2022

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