Themes and Goals

The Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference 2009 (TAIC PART 2009) establishes a forum for the publication of papers related to software testing and analysis. The theme of TAIC PART is transferring software testing technology from academia to industry. TAIC PART aims to forge collaborations between industry and academia. The goals of TAIC PART 2009 include the articulation of fundamental research questions in the field of software testing and analysis. TAIC PART also focuses on the practical challenges that are often faced by software developers in industry.

Call for Papers

TAIC PART 2009 solicits experience, tool, original research, industry challenge, academic challenge, and fast abstract papers that explore software testing and analysis techniques. Research topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Test Adequacy Criteria
Test Suite Execution
Test Coverage Monitoring
Automated Test Data Generation
Regression Testing
Automated Debugging and Fault Localization
Performance Evaluation
Static and Dynamic Analysis
Verification and Validation
Software Reliability Engineering
Model-Based Testing
Testing and Formal Methods
Testing and Model Checking
Software Testing Process
Technology Transfer

TAIC PART solicits papers that focus on the testing and analysis of software applications that include, but are not limited to, the following types:

Embedded and Real-Time Systems
Operating Systems
Parallel, Distributed, and Cluster Applications
Service-Oriented Software Systems
Web Applications
Event-Based Systems
File and Storage Systems
Virtual Machine-Based Applications
Database Applications
XML Processing Systems
Graphical User Interfaces
Wireless Sensor Networks
Safety Critical Systems
AI and Machine Learning Software
Business Applications

Types of Papers

Experience reports should provide practical and generalizable insights into how to apply and extend existing approaches to software testing and analysis.
Tool papers must focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of software testing and analysis tools.
Original Research papers will explore novel software testing techniques. These papers should furnish a detailed theoretical and/or empirical evaluation of the proposed approach.
Industry Challenge papers must have at least one author whose affiliation is non-academic. These papers will describe a real-world software testing problem for which help is sought from the academic research community.
Academic Challenge papers must have at least one author whose affiliation is non-industry. These papers should explain a software testing research problem for which help is sought from industry partners.
Fast Abstract papers are short papers that describes late breaking results or works in progress. These papers are ideal for PhD students who are interested in receiving feedback about dissertation research that is an early stage.

Paper Evaluation

All papers will undergo a rigorous examination by at least three members of the program committee. The program co-chairs and the program committee will provide thoughtful and fair reviews that furnish detailed insights into ways for improving and extending the papers. All submitted papers will be evaluated according to (i) relevance to the conference themes and goals and (ii) clarity and organization.

Experience reports will be evaluated with respect to the significance and generality of the described testing experience.
Research and tool papers will be judged by the technical merit, novelty, and evaluation of the described technique or tool.
Industry and academic challenge papers will be assessed according to their ability to forge partnerships and ultimately yield successful solutions.
Fast abstract papers will be evaluated according to their ability to generate discussion and suggest interesting areas for future research.

The results described in the submitted paper must be unpublished and should not be under review at other workshops, conferences, or journals.

Paper Formatting

Papers should be formatted using the IEEE conference style format. Including all references and figures, a research paper must not exceed the ten page limit and the experience, tool, and industry and academic challenge papers should be not longer than five pages. Finally, fast abstract papers must be two pages in length. Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper through the Submit Paper Web site.

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