UPDATE: Submission deadline extended to December 8!


+++ Theme and Goals +++

TAIC PART is a workshop co-located with ICST 2017 that aims to forge collaboration
between industry and academia on the challenging and exciting problem of
real-world software testing. It is promoted by representatives of both industry
and academia, bringing together industrial software engineers and testers with
researchers working on theory and practice of software testing.

The goals of TAIC PART range from the articulation of research questions in the
field of software testing and analysis to practical challenges faced in industry.
The common theme is the discussion and advancement of approaches and methods for
sustainable collaboration between academia and industry in software testing.


+++ Topics of Interest +++

TAIC PART invites submissions relevant to practice and research including

+ Industry experience reports: practical and generalizable insights into how to
apply and extend existing approaches to software testing and analysis
+ Research methods for collaborative research: ways that industry and academia
can collaborate to further knowledge on testing, verification and validation
+ Industrial challenges with real-world testing: describe a real-world software
testing problem for which industry seeks help from academia or vice versa
+ Knowledge exchange between industry and academia: how can new results and
knowledge be exchanged between the two partners


+++ Submission and Proceedings +++

+ Regular Papers (6 pages): Experience reports, research papers, longer challenge
papers (extension up to 10 pages may be possible on request)
+ Fast Abstracts (up to 2 pages): Challenges in practice and research, work in
progress, positions statements

Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper through the TAIC PART 2017
paper submission site: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=taicpart2017.
All accepted papers will be part of the ICST joint workshop proceedings published
in the IEEE Digital Library.

Best paper award: Win an iPad! The best paper will be selected from the submitted
regular papers based on the reviews by the program committee.


+++ Organization and Contact +++

+ Takashi Kitamura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST), Japan (General Chair)
+ Emil Alegroth, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden (Program Co-Chair)
+ Rudolf Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH), Austria (Program Co-Chair)

If you have any questions or require more information on TAIC PART 2017, please
visit http://www2017.taicpart.org/ or write to t.kitamura(at)aist.go.jp.


+++ Program Committee (to be extended) +++

Pekka Aho, VTT, Finland
Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Emelie Engstrom, Lund University, Sweden
Vladimir Entin, OMICRON electronics, Austria
Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Elizabeta Fourneret, Smartesting, France
Vahid Garousi, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Maurizio Leotta, University of Genova, Italy
Zheng Li, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Bogdan Marculescu, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Mika Mantyla, University of Oulu, Finland
Stefan Mohacsi, Atos, Austria
Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Manuel Oriol, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland
Reinhold Ploesch, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Rakesh Rana, Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre, Ireland
Filippo Ricca, University of Genova, Italy
Ina Schieferdecker, TU Berlin, Germany
Hasan Sozer, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Haruto Tanno, NTT, Japan
Guilherme Horta Travassos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan
Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Matthias Woehrle, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Peter Zimmerer, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany


+++ Steering Committee +++

Emelie Engstrom, Lund University, Sweden
Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Mark Harman, University College London, United Kingdom
Ina Schieferdecker, TU Berlin, Germany