<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">[Apologies for duplicate reception of this CFP]<div><br></div><div><div>RELENG 2014 - CALL FOR PAPERS, TALKS & POSTERS</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering (RELENG 2014)</div><div><br></div><div>April 11, 2014, Mountain View, CA, USA. <b>Graciously hosted by Google!</b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Web: <a href="http://releng.polymtl.ca/">http://releng.polymtl.ca</a></div><div>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/relengcon">@relengcon</a></div><div>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Releng2013">https://www.facebook.com/Releng2013</a></div><div>Submissions: <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=releng2014">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=releng2014</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div><br></div><div>Paper submissions and talk proposals due: February 28, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>Notification to authors: March 11, 2014</div><div>Workshop: April 11, 2014</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS & TALKS</div><div><br></div><div>Release engineering deals with all activities in between regular development and</div><div>delivery of a software product to the end user, i.e., integration, build, test</div><div>execution, packaging and delivery. Although research on this topic goes back for</div><div>decades, the increasing heterogeneity and variability of software products along</div><div>with the recent trend to reduce the release cycle to days or even hours starts</div><div>to question some of the common beliefs and practices.</div><div><br></div><div>The RELENG workshop series aims to provide a highly interactive forum for</div><div>researchers and practitioners in release engineering to: (1) make researchers</div><div>aware of the challenges and research opportunities for modern release</div><div>engineering, and practitioners of the latest research results; (2) share</div><div>experiences with practical approaches, tools, methods and techniques that are</div><div>enabling rapid, robust deployment, and (3) build and maintain connections</div><div>between the different communities.</div><div><br></div><div>The RELENG 2014 workshop will consist of a keynote, practitioner talks, paper</div><div>presentations, working groups and a fishbowl panel for semi-structured group</div><div>discussions. An inspiring keynote (RELENG 2013 featured speakers from Mozilla</div><div>and LinkedIn!), will set the stage for the rest of the workshop, introducing the</div><div>challenges of modern software companies related to release engineering. RELENG</div><div>2014 will also feature a poster session to allow researchers and practitioners</div><div>to present, show-case, and discuss their most recent advances, experiences, and</div><div>challenges in release engineering in an informal setting.</div><div><br></div><div>Since bringing together practitioners and researchers is the core goal of</div><div>RELENG, one of the co-organizers is a release engineer at Mozilla and <b>half of</b></div><div><b>the PC consists of release engineers</b>, so we <b>guarantee that each paper or</b></div><div><b>abstract submission receives at least one review from a</b></div><div><b>practitioner</b>. Furthermore, since each edition of RELENG alternates between an</div><div>academic and an industry host, we are excited to announce that RELENG 2014 will</div><div>be hosted at Google in Mountain View, CA!</div><div><br></div><div>Topics for papers, talks, and posters include but are not limited to:</div><div> * best practices for code movement (branching and integration)</div><div> * continuous integration and testing</div><div> * build and configuration of software</div><div> * build system maintenance</div><div> * testing and reporting infrastructures</div><div> * package/dependency management</div><div> * legal signoff and bill-of-materials</div><div> * delivery and deployment of software</div><div> * code signing and certificate management</div><div> * continuous delivery, deployment, installation and software update</div><div> * cloud provisioning and management</div><div> * interaction with app stores</div><div> * principles and automated techniques for release planning</div><div> * release engineering for product lines</div><div> * DevOps and interaction with development, maintenance, end user, etc.</div><div> * large-scale build and test farms</div><div> * multi-platform build and test</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>SUBMISSIONS</div><div><br></div><div>The following types of submissions are sought:</div><div><br></div><div> * Technical Papers (4 pages) should identify challenges, discuss opposing</div><div> viewpoints, outline processes, or present solutions related to various</div><div> aspects of release engineering.</div><div><br></div><div> * Talk Abstracts (500 words) are only open to practitioners and should describe</div><div> in 500 words or less, a talk on a key aspect of release engineering. These</div><div> talks should be primarily experience-based and should be used as a means of</div><div> communicating challenges that are in need of research.</div><div><br></div><div> * Poster Abstracts (500 words) are open to both practitioners and researchers</div><div> and should describe in 500 words or less, the recent advances, experiences</div><div> and/or challenges in release engineering that their poster will present.</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions should use IEEE templates</div><div>(<a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a>)</div><div>and should be submitted through easychair</div><div>(<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=releng2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=releng2014</a>). Talk and poster</div><div>abstract authors can organize the text into one or multiple sections, but it</div><div>should be uploaded as a pdf (together with a 2 or 3 sentence summary in the</div><div>easychair site's "abstract" box).</div><div><br></div><div>There are no dedicated workshop proceedings (submissions will be archived on the</div><div>web site), but <b>in parallel to the workshop, a call will be launched for the</b></div><div><b>first ever IEEE Software Special Issue on Release Engineering</b>. RELENG</div><div>participants will be able to benefit from direct discussions with and feedback</div><div>from leading release engineering professionals to improve and polish a Special</div><div>Issue submission. So, grab your chance and attend RELENG!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ORGANIZERS</div><div><br></div><div>Bram Adams, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada</div><div>Stephany Bellomo, SEI, USA</div><div>Christian Bird, Microsoft Research, USA</div><div>Foutse Khomh, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada</div><div>Kim Moir, Mozilla, Canada</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>LOCAL HOSTS</div><div><br></div><div>Boris Debic, Google, USA</div><div>Akos Frohner, Google, Switzerland</div></div><div><br></div></body></html>