Web-site: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~atif/testbeds/testbeds2010.htm
All submissions will be handled through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=testbeds2010.

Second International Workshop on TESTing Techniques & Experimentation 
Benchmarks for Event-Driven Software (TESTBEDS 2010)
Theme for 2010: GUI-Based Applications and Rich Internet Applications

Co-located with ICST 2010, Paris, France. April 6, 2010.

Important Dates
          Submission of Full Papers: Friday, 8 January, 2010
          Notification: Friday, 26 February, 2010
          Camera-Ready: Friday, 26 March, 2010
          Workshop: April 6, 2010

General Chair
          Atif M Memon, University of Maryland, USA.

Program Committee
          Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany.
          Renee Bryce, Utah State University, USA.
          Kai-Yuan Cai, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China.
          S.C. Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
          Myra Cohen, University of Nebraska  Lincoln, USA.
          Anna Rita Fasolino, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
          Chin-Yu Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
          Ana Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal.
          Brian P Robinson, ABB Corporate Research, USA.
          Qing Xie, Accenture Technology Labs, Chicago, USA.

Workshop Overview & Goals

With the tremendous success of TESTBEDS 2009, we are happy to announce 
this second workshop. As the participants of TESTBEDS 2009 noted in 
several interesting talks and discussions, testing of several classes of 
event-driven software (EDS) applications is becoming very important. 
Common examples of EDS include graphical user interfaces (GUIs), web 
applications, network protocols, embedded software, software components, 
and device drivers. An EDS takes internal/external events (e.g., commands, 
messages) as input (e.g., from users, other applications), changes its 
state, and sometimes outputs an event sequence.  An EDS is typically 
implemented as a collection of event handlers designed to respond to 
individual events. Nowadays, EDS is gaining popularity because of the 
advantages this ``event-handler architecture'' offers to both developers 
and users. From the developer's point of view, the event handlers may be 
created and maintained fairly independently; hence, complex system may be 
built using these loosely coupled pieces of code. In 
interconnected/distributed systems, event handlers may also be 
distributed, migrated, and updated independently. From the user's point of 
view, EDS offers many degrees of usage freedom. For example, in GUIs, 
users may choose to perform a given task by inputting GUI events (mouse 
clicks, selections, typing in text-fields) in many different ways in terms 
of their type, number and execution order.

Software testing is a popular QA technique employed during software 
development and deployment to help improve its quality. During software 
testing, test cases are created and executed on the software. One way to 
test an EDS is to execute each event individually and observe its outcome, 
thereby testing each event handler in isolation. However, the execution 
outcome of an event handler may depend on its internal state, the state of 
other entities (objects, event handlers) and/or the external environment. 
Its execution may lead to a change in its own state or that of other 
entities. Moreover, the outcome of an event's execution may vary based on 
the sequence of preceding events seen thus far. Consequently, in EDS 
testing, each event needs to be tested in different states. EDS testing 
therefore may involve generating and executing sequences of events, and 
checking the correctness of the EDS after each event. Test coverage may 
not only be evaluated in terms of code, but also in terms of the 
event-space of the EDS. Regression testing not only requires test 
selection, but also repairing obsolete test cases. The first major goal of 
this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to 
discuss some of these topics.

One of the biggest obstacles to conducting research in the field of EDS 
testing is the lack of freely available standardized benchmarks containing 
artifacts (software subjects and their versions, test cases, 
coverage-adequate test suites, fault matrices, coverage matrices, bug 
reports, change requests), tools (test-case generators, test-case 
replayers, fault seeders, regression testers), and processes (how an 
experimenter may use the tools and artifacts together)  [see 
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~atif/newsite/benchmarks.htm for examples] for 
experimentation. The second major goal of this workshop is to promote the 
development of concrete benchmarks for EDS.

To provide focus, this event will only examine GUI-based applications and 
Rich Internet Applications, which share many testing challenges. As this 
workshop matures, we hope to expand to other types of EDS (e.g., general 
web applications).

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