[FOM] Call for Participation: Tests and Proofs (TAP 2012) in Prague

[Achim D. Brucker]

Apologies for duplicates.

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                          CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                 TESTS and PROOFS 2012 (TOOLS EUROPE 2012)
           6th International Conference on Tests & Proofs
                May 31 - June 1, 2012, Prague, Czech Republic
                   http://lifc.univ-fcomte.fr/tap2012/


                             Co-located with:
                ICMT 2012, SC 2012, MSEPT 2012 as part of TOOLS 2012:
                        http://toolseurope2012.fit.cvut.cz/


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The TAP conference is devoted to the convergence of
proofs and tests. It combines ideas from both sides for the
advancement of software quality.

Keynote Speakers
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 * Andreas Kuehlmann <http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/%7Ekuehl/>, Coverity
   The Technology and Psychology of Testing Your Code as You Develop It
   (abstract
   <http://lifc.univ-fcomte.fr/tap2012/abstract_talk_Kuehlmann.pdf>)
 * Corina Pasareanu <http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/profile/pcorina/>, NASA
   Ames Research Center
   Combining Model Checking and Symbolic Execution for Software Testing
   (abstract
   <http://lifc.univ-fcomte.fr/tap2012/abstract_talk_Pasareanu.pdf>)
 * Mehdi Jazayeri, University of Lugano.
   Software Composition: Why, what, and how

Registration:
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Early registration, at a reduced price, will be open
until 25 April 2012.
http://toolseurope2012.fit.cvut.cz/index.php/registration.html


Organization:
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Conference Chair
   Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich, Eiffel Software, and ITMO

Program Chairs
   Achim D. Brucker, SAP Research, Germany
   Jacques Julliand, University of Franche-Comté

Local Organization
   Pavel Tvrdik, CTU Prague
   Michal Valenta, CTU Prague
   Jindra Vojikova, CTU Prague
   Jan Chrastina, CTU Prague  


Program:
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Thursday 31th May, 09:00-10:30: Invited Talk

  * Andreas Kuehlmann, Coverity:
    The Technology and Psychology of Testing Your Code as You Develop It

Thursday, 11:00-13:00: Paper session Model-Based Testing

  * Malte Lochau, Ina Schaefer, Jochen Kamischke and Sascha Lity.
    Incremental Model-based Testing of Delta-oriented Software Product Lines
  * Hernan Ponce De Leon, Stefan Haar and Delphine Longuet.
    Conformance Relations for Labeled Event Structures
  * Joseph Kiniry, Daniel M. Zimmerman and Ralph Hyland.
    Testing Library Specifications by Verifying Conformance Tests
  * Chedor Sebastien, Thierry J?ron and Morvan Christophe.
    Test generation from recursive tiles systems

Thursday, 14:30-15:30: Paper session Scenario and UML-Based Testing

  * Nadia Creignou, Uwe Egly and Martina Seidl.
    A Framework for the Specification of Random SAT and QSAT Formulas
  * Jens Brüning, Martin Gogolla, Lars Hamann and Mirco Kuhlmann.
    Evaluating and Debugging OCL Expressions in UML Models
  * Uwe Egly, Sebastian Gabmeyer, Martina Seidl, Hans Tompits, ....
    Towards Scenario-Based Testing of UML Diagrams

Thursday, 16:00-17:00: Tutorial

  * Nikolay Kosmatov, Nicky Williams.
    Automated Structural Testing with PathCrawler

Friday 1st June, 09:00-10:30: Invited Talk of SC

  * Mehdi Jazayeri, University of Lugano.
    Software Composition: Why, what, and how

Friday 11:00-13:00: Invited Talk of TAP

  * Corina Pasareanu. NASA.
    Combining Model Checking and Symbolic Execution for Software Testing

Friday, 14:30-15:30: Paper session Test and Model-checking

  * Martin Sulzmann and Axel Zechner
    Constructive Finite Trace Analysis with Linear Temporal Logic
  * Alessandro Armando, Roberto Carbone, Giancarlo Pellegrino, Alessio Merlo
    and Davide Balzarotti.
    From Model-checking to Automated Testing of Security Protocols: Bridging
    the Gap

Friday, 16:00-17:30: Paper session Test of Complex Data Structures

  * Valerio Senni and Fabio Fioravanti.
    Generation of test data structures using Constraint Logic Programming
  * Valeria Bengolea, Nazareno Aguirre, Darko Marinov and Marcelo Frias.
    Coverage Criteria on RepOK to Reduce Bounded Exhaustive Test Suites
  * Matthieu Carlier, Catherine Dubois and Arnaud Gotlieb.
    A first step in the design of a formally verified constraint-based testing
    tool: FocalTest

-- 
Dr. Achim D. Brucker, SAP Research, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe
             Phone: +49 6227 7-52595, http://www.brucker.ch