The Brazilian Software Testing Meeting is an event to promote the exchange of ideas between companies and academia in order to stimulate discussion among participants to discuss and debate issues related to software testing, learning and exchanging practical knowledge, contributing with the integration between academia and the market.
The event will consist of technical presentations, short courses, the presence of distinguished guests of the testing area, competition, and awards, held on 23 and 24 April in the city of Recife, PE, being conducted by Gotest and supported of CESAR and Porto Digital.
The IV EBTS is now open for submissions of articles that provide a better understanding and good practices of software testing. The articles have a better chance of being accepted if reporting lessons learned, innovations and practical applications. Academic research articles and reports of practical experiences are also welcome. The focus of EBTS is to provide opportunity for anyone who has unique ideas, innovative practices in the area of software testing.
This is an abbreviated list of some topics currently faced by the testing community. They can be useful, but not limiting, 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 case selection
• Test automation and tools3. Approaches
• Agile testing
• Exploratory testing
• Specification-based testing
• Requirements coverage
• Web services testing
• Release criteria
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. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format via email to: ebts@gotest.biz
The e-mail subject field must contain the key area specifying which area the paper is related to.
* EBTS 2010 is not associated with the ACM.
Paper submission deadline: December 29, 2009
Notification of selection: January 25, 2010
Camera-ready materials due: February 25, 2010