Call for Papers

International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management (IJSAEM)

Special Issue on Advances in Software Testing

International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management (IJSAEM) is a quarterly Journal of the Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM), India and the Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. The goal of the journal is to publish high-quality papers that help researchers, educators and practitioners understand cutting edge results.

The special issue on Advances in Software Testing is a premier outlet for research results in the areas of software and systems testing. The issue emphasises on theory, empirical work and practical applications to real-world. The editors encourage papers on practical experience with developed tools and techniques used in both academic and industrial settings. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Advanced testing methodologies
• Agile, iterative, incremental testing processes
• Automated test generation
• Comparison of testing methods
• Empirical evaluations and industrial applications of various testing techniques
• Evaluations of testing tools
• Model-based testing
• Reliability measurement
• Software testing education
• Software testing theory and practice
• Testing based on formal specifications and models
• Testing of open source and third party software
• Test oracle
• Testing tools
• Testing of various types of software and applications including web applications, web services, database, embedded software and security testing
• Traceability of test cases

Submission Information
IJSAEM welcomes high quality submissions that are original work, not published or currently submitted elsewhere. Authors should follow the hyperlink "Instructions for Authors" available at the journal page, http://www.springer.com/journal/13198 to prepare their manuscripts, which must be written in English. Manuscripts shall be submitted using the hyperlink "Submit Online" available at the journal page.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: November 1, 2010
Reviews to authors: January 10, 2011
Final paper submission deadline: January 31, 2011
Planned publication of the issue: March, 2011

Guest Editors
Padmanabhan Krishnan, Bond University, Australia
Rakesh Shukla, IIIT Pune, India
Narayanan Subramanian, The University of Texas at Tyler, USA

http://www.springer.com/journal/13198
International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management
ISSN: 0975-6809 (print version)
ISSN: 0976-4348 (electronic version)
Journal no. 13198