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<P><B><FONT size=4>Call for Papers</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT size=4> </P>
<P>A Focused Topic Issue on </P>
<P>"Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization" </P>
<P> </P>
<P>The International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) </P></FONT><FONT size=3>
<P> </P>
<P>Theme </P></B></FONT><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">
<P> </P>
<P>Today’s software systems suffer from poor reliability. </P>
<P>Many lives and billions of dollars are lost annually due to </P>
<P>software errors. According to the report by NIST in 2002,</P>
<P>poor software quality costs 60 billion dollars yearly to US</P>
<P>economy, and 22 billion dollars can be regained by</P>
<P>improving infrastructure for detecting errors using testing </P>
<P>closer to the development phase. With the quick increase of </P>
<P>software in complexity and scale, test automation is </P>
<P>becoming a very important and hot research field in </P>
<P>software engineering and quality assurance. Now many </P>
<P>researchers and practitioners have realized that software test </P>
<P>automation will be a required systematic solution to meet </P>
<P>with new software testing challenges and automation demands from the emerging software engineering </P>
<P>technologies in SOA-based systems, model-based, component-based software, and mobile computing and </P>
<P>clouding computing service systems. </P>
<P> </P>
<P>In the past decades, many research papers have been </P>
<P>published to address software testing and automation issues </P>
<P>and solutions. And now a number of test automation tools </P>
<P>are available for engineer. However, there are still many </P>
<P>open issues, obstacles, and challenges in software test </P>
<P>automation, practice, and standardization. Moreover, there </P>
<P>is an emerging need in software test automation </P>
<P>standardization to reduce test automation costs and efforts </P>
<P>and increase the standardization of test processes, test </P>
<P>design, and test tools. </P>
<P> </P>
<P>This focused topic issue for the International Journal of </P>
<P>Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) </P>
<P>is targeted at </FONT></FONT><B><I><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">software test automation issues, solutions, </FONT></FONT></I></B></P>
<P><B><I><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">practice, and standardization </B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">to address the above needs</FONT></FONT><B><I><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">. </B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">It </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">allows researchers and industry practitioners to exchange </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">innovative ideas, practical solutions, and test automation </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">tools to cope with practical issues and challenges in the real </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">world. In addition, research papers discussing test </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">automation standardization, challenges and issues are </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">welcomed. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">Furthermore, this journal issue provides a great </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">channel for engineers and researchers to report their </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">practical test automation experience and lessons, exchange </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">well-defined test automation standards for enterprises and </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">production lines. </P><B>
<P> </P>
<P>The Focused Topics </P></B>
<P> </P>
<P>This focused topic issue seeks unpublished original papers, </P>
<P>which propose new test automation ideas, solutions and </P>
<P>tools, report practical experience in test automation projects, </P>
<P>discuss new test automation process, standards, models, and </P>
<P>test criteria. The typical scope includes different </P>
<P>perspectives in test automation, including auto-test </P>
<P>infrastructure, standards, models, test generation, test </P>
<P>execution, test management, and test coverage analysis and </P>
<P>measurement. In addition, it also seeks practice reports that </P>
<P>present the current issues, challenges, experience and </P>
<P>lessons on software test automation projects. </P>
<P> </P>
<P>The topics for submissions include but are not limited to the followings: </P>
<P> </P>
<P>(A) Automated test frameworks, solutions and tools: </P>
<P>- Automated test frameworks and components </P>
<P>- Software test automation tools and solutions for unit testing (black-box/white-box) </P>
<P>- Automatic techniques and tools for testing software production lines, such as installation testing, and configuration testing </P>
<P>- Automatic software regression test techniques and tools </P>
<P>- System load testing tools and performance evaluation tools for non-functional requirements and features </P>
<P>- Software simulation and tools for software auto-testing </P>
<P>- Software security testing techniques and tools </P>
<P>- User-oriented and requirements-based test automation approaches and tools </P>
<P>- Program-based software test automation methods, tools, and experience </P>
<P>- Language-based software test automation techniques and tools </P>
<P>- Software test automation cost analysis and complex evaluation tools </P>
<P>- Innovative software test languages, scripting techniques, and tools </P>
<P>- Automatic software test coverage analysis and monitoring tools </P>
<P> </P>
<P>(B) Test automation standardization: </P>
<P>- Test automation standardization issues, challenges, motivations, and needs </P>
<P>- Test automation standards in test processes, test models, test languages, coverage criteria, and documentation </P>
<P>- Test automation standards for test planning, design & analysis, test generation and scripting, test complexity and cost evaluation, and tools </P>
<P>- Test automation techniques, experience, lessons and case studies </P>
<P>- General and domain-specific standardization for test automation and tools </P>
<P> </P>
<P>(C) Emerging test automation methods and tools: </P>
<P>-Automatic validation techniques and technology for emerging software technologies </P>
<P>-SOA-based software test automation methods, techniques, and tools </P>
<P>-Testing methods and test automation solutions for cloud computing systems </P>
<P>-Model-based software test automation methods, techniques, and tools </P>
<P>-Component-based software test automation methods and tools </P>
<P>- Web-based and agent-based software test automation methods and tools </P>
<P>- Wireless-based software test automation approaches and tools </P>
<P>- Innovative software test automation solutions for cloud computing </P>
<P> </P>
<P>(D) Test automation management and practice: </P>
<P>- Issues, challenges, and needs in software test automation and practice </P>
<P>- Test-driven-development techniques and project experience </P>
<P>- Software test automation case studies and empirical studies </P>
<P>- Software test automation project issues, experience and lessons learned </P></FONT></FONT><B><FONT size=3>
<P> </P>
<P>Important Dates: </P></B></FONT><FONT size=3><FONT size=3>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Paper submission due date: September 1, 2010 </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Notification of acceptance: </FONT></FONT></FONT><B><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">November 15, 2010 </FONT></P></B></FONT><FONT size=3><FONT size=3>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Camera-ready copy: December 15, 2010 </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Expected publication: 2011 </FONT></P></FONT></FONT><B><FONT size=3>
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<P>Paper Submission </P></B></FONT><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">
<P> </P>
<P>Papers should be prepared following the guidelines posted at </P>
<P>the IJSEKE web site (http://www.worldscinet.com/ijseke/mkt/guidelines.shtml). </P>
<P>Additionally, each paper is limited to 25 double-spaced </P>
<P>pages in 11 pt font size. Send your papers in electronic </P>
<P>format in PS or PDF to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijseke2010. </P>
<P>For more information, please contact the guest authors. </P></FONT></FONT><B><FONT size=3>
<P> </P>
<P>Paper Review and Publication </P></B></FONT><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman">
<P> </P>
<P>All submitted papers will be reviewed by the selected </P>
<P>researchers and experts in the research field committee. </P>
<P>Each paper will be reviewed at least by three reviewers </P>
<P>based on the review process of The International Journal of </P>
<P>Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. The </P>
<P>accepted papers will be published in IJSEKE as a journal </P>
<P>focused topic issue on Software Test Automation, Practice, </P>
<P>and Standardization in 2011. </P>
<P> </P></FONT></FONT><B><FONT size=3>
<P>Guest Co-Editors: </P></B></FONT><FONT size=3><FONT size=3>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Jerry Gao (<A href="mailto:jerrygao@email.sjsu.edu" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:jerrygao@email.sjsu.edu">jerrygao@email.sjsu.edu</A>), </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">San Jose State University, USA </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Henry Muccini (henry</FONT></FONT></FONT><B><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">. </FONT></B></FONT><FONT size=3><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">muccini</FONT></FONT><B><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">@</FONT></B></FONT><FONT size=3><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">univaq.it), University of L'Aquila, Italy </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Xiaoying Bai (baixy@tsinghua.edu.cn), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China </FONT></P></FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>