第三届国际软件测试架构研讨会 3rd International Workshop on Software Test Architecture InSTA

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As software becomes larger and more complicated, we must increase its reliability and users’ satisfaction. The need for better testing calls for emphasizing higher-level test designs with specialized software test architectures. This higher level approach allows the design concepts and big picture of the software to be grasped and communicated, and the higher level of abstraction can increase the productivity and reusability. This makes it possible for the software testing to cope with the high reliability requirements of large and complex programs.

In software testing, there are various keywords for test design concepts. However, there are no widely standardized diagrams or notations to communicate the test design concepts, to increase the productivity and reusability of tests by raising their levels of abstraction, to generally grasp the overall perspective of the software for testing it. By focusing on the higher concepts of test architectures, our discussions can raise the quality of the testing.

Test architectures must be approached indirectly as a part of the test strategies. Some organizations are working to establish new ways to design novel test architectures, but there is no unified understanding of the key concepts of test architectures. This workshop is intended to allow researchers and practitioners to comprehensively discuss the central concepts of test architectures.

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Topics of interest for papers include, but are not limited to:

Concepts of test architectures
Abstraction of test cases (e.g. test levels, test types, abstract equivalent classes, high-level test conditions and high-level test cases)
Relationships of abstract test cases
Separation of concerns for test
Architecture of test suite based on abstract test cases (e.g. design of test levels and test types)
Types of test architecture (e.g. architecture of test suite and architecture of test system/environment)
Similarities, differences and harmonization between test suite architecture and test system architecture
Similarities and differences among test architecture, test strategy, test plan and test sub-process in 29119
Design of test architecture
How to design several test levels
How to design complicated test types and test cycles
Design concepts for test architecture design
Modeling technique for test architecture design
Design patterns for test architecture design
Styles of test architecture
Quality characteristics of test architecture (e.g. maintainability of test suite)
Original diagrams and notation for test architecture design
Application or enhancement of existing notation (e.g. UML/UTP, SysML and future diagram for SPL)
Connection of test architecture design and test case design (e.g. structure of test case based on test architectural components)
Meta-models or ontology for test architectures
Test requirement analysis
Whether software requirement specification is the goal of software test or not?
How to model holistic test requirement
How to model non functional requirement for test
How to organize test requirement for several source (e.g. from customer, from design and from environment)
How to overview large-scale and complex requirements for test
Analysis patterns for test requirement analysis
Application of test architecture
Quality evaluation of test architecture
Overall test engineering methodology based on test architecture design
Reuse of test architecture design
Product line engineering of test suite (e.g. how to design and manage variants of test suite)
Design example of test architecture for large-scale and complicated system
Roles and responsibilities of test architect
Automation based on test architecture (e.g. separating automated test and manual test in keyword driven testing based on test architecture)
Test process improvement based on test architecture
Relationships between software architectures and software test architectures
Typical test architecture for a domain and/or comparison among domains (e.g. banking, logistics, cloud, automotive, medical, industrial automation and telecommunications)
Industrial experiments and case studies of test architectures