**NOTICE (24 Jan 2024)**: To give a bit of extra time to authors, we decided to have a soft deadline and allow the authors to update their submissions by **Feb 04** only if they made initial submissions before **Feb 01**. Please, remember to register your paper and submit the title and abstract before **Feb 01**.

Mutation 2024 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 full and short length research papers, full and short length industry papers, and ‘Hot Off the Press’ presentations.

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

Five types of submissions can be made to the workshop:

• Full research papers (10 pages including references): Research, case studies.
• Short research papers (6 pages including references): Research in progress, tools.
• Full industrial papers (6 pages including references): Applications and lessons learned in industry.
• Short industrial papers (2 pages including references): Mutation testing in practice reports.
• Hot Off the Press presentations (1 page abstract): Presentation of work recently published in other venues and relevant to the workshop.

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 (except for Hot Off the Press submissions).

Mutation 2024 will employ a double-anonymous review process (except for Hot Off the Press and industry submissions). Authors must make every effort to anonymise their papers to hide their identities throughout the review process, except for Hot Off the Press submissions. See the double-anonymous QnA page for more information.

Industry paper

Industry papers should be given the keyword "industry" and are not subject to the double anonymity policy.

Hot Off the Press

Hot Off the Press submissions should contain 1) a short summary of the paper's contribution, 2) an explanation of why those results are particularly interesting for MUTATION attendees, 3) a link to the paper. Their title should start with "HOP:" The original paper should be published no earlier than January 1st 2022.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline (extended): Sun 04 Feb 2024
• Notification of acceptance: Mon 26 Feb 2024
• Camera-ready: Fri 1 Mar 2024
• Workshop date: 28^th May 2024

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