The objective of the Industry track program is to establish an efficient and meaningful dialogue between software practitioners and software engineering researchers concerning the challenges, findings (both positive and negative), encountered obstacles, and lessons learned on applying software development practices in various environments.
The Industry Track presentations will provide accounts of the application of software testing & validation practices (which may be principles, techniques, tools, methods, processes, testing techniques etc.) to a specific domain or to the development of a significant software system. Of particular interest is evaluation in industrial context and scale of emerging software testing techniques and methods, and/or information on applying novel software testing, verification and validation practices to innovative applications. Also, we are interested in downstream bug metrics and prediction methods.
We expect Industry papers and presentations to be of interest to software development professionals, as well as to software quality and process improvement groups with concrete relation to industrial application.
We seek submissions of two-page summary by authors in the software testing community on industry relevant topics in technology, tools and practices related to software testing, quality, safety, metrics, reliability, and modeling. The summary should contain:
A full detail paper is not required. However, the submission may contain example slides or as much of the actual presentation as the author wants to submit. Each accepted presentation will have 15-30 min to present at the main conference.
Submissions must adhere to the ICST 2017 formatting on the ICST 2017 website: https://www.aster.or.jp/conference/icst2017/calls/calls.html. Papers must be submitted electronically through the online submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icst2017, and specifically select Industry Track.
Since the goal of this track is to establish a dialog between practitioners and researchers, this track will be as inclusive as possible. Submissions will be reviewed by the organizing committee and program committee, and will be selected based on their interest and relevance to the wider testing community and the availability of speaking slots.
Accepted papers will be included in the ICST 2017 Companion Proceedings. IEEE Software will recognize the best paper of the Industry track with an award at the conference.