第五届国际软件组合测试研讨会 The 5th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing IWCT

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The 5th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT) focuses on combinatorial testing, a widely applicable generic methodology and technology for software verification and validation. In a combinatorial test plan, all interactions between parameters up to a certain level are covered. For example, in the special case of pairwise testing, for every pair of parameters, every pair of values will appear at least once. Studies show that CT is more efficient and effective than random testing and expert test selection methods. CT has gained significant interest in recent years, both in research and in practice. However, many issues remain unresolved, and much research is still needed in the field.In this workshop, we plan to bring together researchers actively working on combinatorial testing and create a productive and creative environment for sharing and collaboration. The workshop will also serve as a meeting place between academia and industry, uniting academic excellence with industrial experience and needs. This will allow participants from academia to learn about the industrial experience in practical applications of CT to real-life testing problems. Industrial participants will have opportunities to meet the leading scientists in the field and learn of the latest advances and innovations.

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

Combinatorial testing workflow
Modeling the input space for CT
Efficient algorithms to generate t-way test suites, especially involving support of constraints
Determination of expected system behavior for each test case
Executing CT test suites
Combinatorial testing based fault localization
Implementation of CT with existing testing infrastructures
Handling changes in test requirements
Real-world experience in deployment of combinatorial testing
Empirical studies and feedback from practical applications of CT
Evaluation and ROI metrics to assess the degree of usefulness of CT
Methodology used for test space modeling and determination of interaction coverage requirements
Discussion of challenges and open problems in the application of CT in industrial settings
Applicability of combinatorial testing
Comparison and combination of CT with other dynamic verification methods
Study of failure records to determine the kind of CT which may have detected faults
Combinatorial testing for concurrent and real-time systems
Cloud computing systems testing and use of combinatorial methods in cloud architecture
Application of CT in other domains, e.g. biotech applications, mechanical engineering, security, etc.
Combinatorial testing, feature models, and software product lines
Combinatorial and complementing methods
Combinatorial analysis of existing test suites
Test plan reduction and completeness
CT and coverage metrics – combining the two, and studying the relationship between them