First International Workshop on Software Test Evaluation (STEV 2007)
Portland, Oregon, USA, October 11/12, 2007
 
co-located with QSIC 2007

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Theme and Goals

Testing is the most commonly used and most important activity in software quality assurance, frequently accounting for over 50% of the entire cost of software development. For large systems with complex functionality and large input spaces, it is imperative to automate software testing. Automation should include not only automated execution of test cases, but also automatic test data selection and automatic evaluation of test outputs. While there has been quite a lot of research in the field of automatic test data generation, there is not so much work regarding test oracles.

There has recently been increased activity in the field of test evaluation. Several approaches have been proposed to overcome the oracle problem, such as model-based test oracles, log file analysis, metamorphic testing, symmetric testing, statistical hypothesis tests, and many others. While these techniques are quite helpful, there remain many open questions. Ideas have to be exchanged, new approaches have to be proposed and evaluated, and problems have to be identified and solved.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners to discuss and evaluate the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field of test evaluation and to identify future trends and problems in this area. The combination of people from both academia and industry is intended to foster a two-way flow of information, to help make academic researchers aware of practical problems from industry, and to facilitate the conversion of theoretical research results into practical applications.