The 10th Software Quality Days (SWQD) conference and tools fair – one of
the largest software quality conferences in Europe - will bring
together researchers and practitioners from business, industry, and
academia working on quality assurance and quality management for
software engineering and information technology.
In 2018 the SWQD conference hosts the 7th scientific program on
research and industry experience. The guiding topic for 2018 will be
“Software Quality 4.0: Advanced Methods and Tools for better Software
and Systems”.
This year the main scientific program includes a session on Testing the Internet of Things (T-IoT).
MAIN SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
High software and systems quality are success-critical factors in
engineering practices and refer to product, process, and service
quality. However, quality attributes have to be embodied within
individual phases of software and systems development.
In distributed engineering environments, where various stakeholders
coming from heterogeneous disciplines have to collaborate and interact
efficiently. Additional quality attributes with focus on collaboration
and data exchange apply. Mobile environments typically refer to product
quality and include quality requirements regarding usability,
interaction, safety and security.
Following the guiding topic we welcome contributions related to
software and systems quality in context of distributed and mobile
environments.
Topics of interest for research and industrial experience paper include but are not limited to
- System and software quality management methods
- Improvement of software development methods and processes
- Testing and quality assurance of software and software-intensive systems
- Process and quality assurance automation
- Requirements Engineering and Management
- Project and Risk Management
- Effort and quality estimation
- Metrics (product, process, project)
- Domain specific quality issues such as embedded, medical, automotive systems
- Novel trends in software quality
- Crowdsourcing in Software Engineering
SPECIAL SESSION ON TESTING THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT)
The objective of the Testing the Internet of Things track (T-IoT) is
to establish a fruitful and meaningful dialog among systems
practitioners and with systems engineering researchers in embedded
systems (ES), cyber-physical systems (CPS), and the Internet of Things
(IoT) on the challenges, obstacles, results (both good and bad), and
lessons learned associated with the massive deployment of Internet of
Things solutions in various safety- and security-critical environments.
The T-IoT presentations will provide accounts of the application of
testing and test engineering practices (which may be principles,
techniques, tools, methods, processes, testing techniques etc.) to a
specific domain or to the development of a significant IoT system. In
particular, we are interested in new methods, experiences, best
practices, etc. on how to assure the quality, safety, security,
reliability, resilience and trustworthiness of IoT systems during
development, for certification and deployment, and in operation and
maintenance. We would like the T-IoT presentations to be of interest to
system development professionals as well as to quality groups for such
software-based systems.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Risk-oriented testing, security testing, performance testing, scalability testing for IoT devices and solutions
- Quality assurance and certification for IoT devices and solutions
- Simulation and testing of large-scale IoT deployments
- IoT test platforms and tools
Special Session Chair: Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS
COMMON PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION
The scientific program of SWQD 2018 accepts two categories of
conference submissions. In both categories, papers with practical
relevance and already conducted practical evaluation will be preferred.
The SWQD 2018 conference will provide best paper awards in both
categories, i.e., technical research papers and industrial experience
papers.
Publication of Papers with Springer LNBIP
The scientific program papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed for
publication in the well known research publication series Springer
LNBIP.
- Full papers should be 15-20 pages (in Springer LNBIP proceedings format) and include an abstract of up to 150 words.
- Short Papers should be 8-12 pages (in Springer LNBIP proceedings format - see the LNBIP Website for author instructions).
The language of the scientific program is English.
All scientific program contributions will be reviewed by the
international Program Committee on their scientific merit and relevance
to the conference topics and may be accepted as regular or short papers.
Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings, published by
Springer LNBIP (abstracted/ indexed in ISI Proceedings, DBLP, EI and
Scopus), and the Springer Digital library.
If accepted, papers must be personally presented at the Software
Quality Days 2018 Conference by the author or one of the co-authors. The
first presenting author can participate free of charge at the two
conference days. Additional authors/presenters can participate at
discounted partner fee.
