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CALL FOR PAPERS QUDOS 2018 4th International Workshop on Quality-Aware DevOps Co-located with the 9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2018) Berlin, Germany April 10, 2018 http://2018.qudos-workshop.org/ https://twitter.com/qudos_workshop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission deadline Jan 15, 2018* (AoE) Tool paper submission deadline Jan 15, 2018* (AoE) Paper notification Feb 09, 2018 Camera-ready deadline Feb 18, 2018 Workshop date April 10, 2018 *extended ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND TOPICS The QUDOS workshop provides a forum for experts from academia and industry to present and discuss novel quality-aware methods, practices and tools for DevOps. DevOps extends the agile development principles to include the full stack of software services, from design to execution, enabling and promoting collaboration of operations, quality assurance, and development engineers throughout the entire service lifecycle. Ultimately, DevOps is a process that enables faster releases of a better product to the end user. DevOps encompasses a set of values, principles, methods, practices, and tools, to accelerate software delivery to the customer by means of infrastructure as code, continuous integration and deployment, automated testing and monitoring, or new architectural styles such as microservices. Software engineering research mainly deals with the development aspects of DevOps, focusing on development methods, practices, and tools, leaving the quality assurance aspects of DevOps behind. Even though development practices such as testing (at all levels) are instrumental in producing quality software, they mostly deal with the functional correctness, while quality assurance deals with a more broadly defined concept of quality, of which functional correctness is just one dimension. However, DevOps needs methods and tools that enable systematic assessment, prediction, and management of software quality in other dimensions as well, including performance, reliability, safety, survivability, or cost of ownership. The QUDOS workshop aims to provide a venue for advances in the state of the art in DevOps quality assurance methods, practices, and tools. To this end, the workshop brings together experts from both academia and industry, working in diverse areas such as quality assurance, testing, performance engineering, agile software engineering, and model-based development, with the goal to identify, define, and disseminate novel quality-aware approaches to DevOps. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Foundations of quality assurance in DevOps: Methodologies; integration with lifecycle management; automated tool chains; architecture patterns; etc. * Architectural issues in DevOps: Scalability and capacity planning; scale-out architectures; cloud-native application design; microservice-based architectures * Quality assurance in the development phase: Software models and requirements in early software development phases; functional and non-functional testing; languages, annotations and profiles for quality assurance; quality analysis, verification and prediction; optimization-based architecture design; etc. * Quality assurance during operation: Application performance monitoring; model-driven performance measurement and benchmarking; feedback-based quality assurance; capacity planning and forecasting; architectural improvements; performance anti-pattern detection; traceability and versioning; trace and log analysis; software regression and testing; performance monitoring and analytics; etc. * Continuous deployment and live experimentation: CI and CD in DevOps; canary releases and partial rollouts; A/B testing; performance and scalability testing via shadow launches * Applications of DevOps: Case Studies in cloud computing, Big Data, and IoT; standardization and interoperability; novel application domains, etc. * All other topics related to quality in DevOps and agile service delivery models For more details, please visit: http://2018.qudos-workshop.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Program Committee Chairs Lubomír Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Workshop Chairs (Steering Committee) Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Andre van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Philipp Leitner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden Program Committee Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India Alberto Avritzer, Sonatype, USA Cor-Paul Bezemer, Queen’s University, Canada Andreas Brunnert, RETIT, Germany David Carrera, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Jürgen Cito, University of Zurich, Switzerland Nikolas Herbst, University of Würzburg, Germany Geir Horn, University of Oslo, Norway Klaus-Dieter Lange, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang, York University, Canada Zoltán Adam Mann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland Diego Pérez-Palacín, University of Zaragoza, Spain Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA Josef Spillner, ZHAW Winterthur, Switzerland Weiyi Shang, Concordia University, Canada Damian Andrew Tamburri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Asser Tantawi, IBM Research, USA Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Petr Tůma, Charles University, Czech Republic Ingo Weber, NICTA, Australia Erik Wilde, CA API Academy, USA Web Chair Teerat Pitakrat, University of Stuttgart, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. We solicit full papers (max 6 pages) and short tool papers (max 2 pages). All submissions must conform to the ACM conference format. Each full paper submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qudos2018 At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. Presented papers will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Authors of selected papers will be invited after the workshop to submit an extended version of their work to the Big Data and Cognitive Computing journal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION AND SUPPORT QUDOS 2018 is organized and technically sponsored by the Research Group (RG) and the RG DevOps Performance Working Group of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC RG, http://research.spec.org), and by the consortium of the EU project DICE (http://dice-h2020.eu). QUDOS 2018 is supported by the IFIP Working Group on Service Oriented Systems (http://ifip-wg-sos.deib.polimi.it/) and by the DFG Priority Programme 1593 (SPP 1593) "Design For Future - Managed Software Evolution" (http://www.dfg-spp1593.de/), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
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