EBTS 2008 is now accepting papers that offer understanding and best practices about software testing. The paper has better chances of being accepted if it reports lessons learned, innovations and practical applications.
Academic research papers and industry experience reports are welcome. The focus of the EBTS conference is to provide an exchange of ideas between industry and academia. The goal of this conference is to provide discussions during the presentations leading to innovation in the software testing community.
The objective of the program committee is to provide an opportunity for anyone who has unique, fresh, and practical ideas in the software testing area.
The conference applies to people who want to discuss and debate testing topics bringing, learning and exchanging practical knowledge improving their expertise.
This is an abbreviated list of some topics currently faced by the testing community. They can be useful, but not limited, to stimulate paper generation ideas.
1. Process and Management
• Test planning
• Test-driven development
• Outsourced testing
• Test team management
• Test measurements and metrics
• Building a Test Team
2. Techniques
• Static and Dynamic Testing Techniques
• Test cases selections
• Test automation and tools3. Approaches
• Agile testing
• Exploratory testing
• Specification-based testing
• Requirements coverage
• Web services testing
• Release criteria
• Test measurements and metrics
Papers should be sent following the ACM SIG Proceedings style, freely available at www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Papers should contain between four and six pages long. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format via email to: ebts@cesar.org.br
The e-mail subject field must contain the key area specifying which area the paper is related to.
* EBTS 2007 is not associated with the ACM.
Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2008
Notification of selection: June 30, 2008
Refine the paper / Prepare presentation materials: July
Camera-ready materials due: July 30, 2008