A-TEST 2024

The Workshop on Automating Testing (A-TEST, https://a-test.org/) provides a venue for researchers and industry members alike to exchange and discuss trending views, ideas, state of the art, work in progress, and scientific results on automated testing.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the workshop, with the special theme “Using DSLs for test automation and the automated testing of DSLs.”, exactly at the intersection of ECOOP and ISSTA.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Effective DSLs for testing.
• Integrating DSLs into existing unit testing frameworks like Selenium, JUnit, or PyTest.
• DSLs for API testing (including the GUI).
• Languages for specific testing domains like web, mobile, cloud, and embedded systems testing.
• Tools, IDEs, and environments that support the development and use of DSLs in test automation.
• DSLs and Model-Based Testing (MBT), exploring the intersections between DSLs and MBT.
• Real-world applications, success stories, challenges, and lessons learned from using DSLs in industrial settings.
• Novel ideas, emerging trends, and future directions in the development and application of DSLs for test automation
• Testing of DSLs

Call for Papers

Authors are invited to submit papers to the workshop, and present and discuss them at the event on topics related to DSLs and automated software testing. Paper submissions can be of the following types:

• Full papers (max 8 pages, including references) describing original, complete, and validated research – either empirical or theoretical – in A-TEST related techniques, tools, or industrial case studies.

• Work-in-progress papers (max. 4 pages) that describe novel, interesting, and high-potential work in progress, but not necessarily reaching full completion (e.g., not completely validated).

• Tool papers (max. 4 pages) presenting some testing tool in a way that it could be presented to industry as a start of successful technology transfer.

• Technology transfer papers (max. 4 pages) describing industry-academia co-operation. Position papers (max. 2 pages) that analyse trends and raise issues of importance. Position papers are intended to generate discussion and debate during the workshop.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Effective DSLs for testing.

• Integrating DSLs into existing unit testing frameworks like Selenium, JUnit, or PyTest.

• DSLs for API testing (including the GUI).

• Languages for specific testing domains like web, mobile, cloud, and embedded systems testing.

• Tools, IDEs, and environments that support the development and use of DSLs in test automation.

• DSLs and Model-Based Testing (MBT), exploring the intersections between DSLs and MBT.

• Real-world applications, success stories, challenges, and lessons learned from using DSLs in industrial settings.

• Novel ideas, emerging trends, and future directions in the development and application of DSLs for test automation Testing of DSLs.

All submissions must be in English and in PDF format. Submissions must conform to the ACM Conference Format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). A-TEST 2024 will employ a single-blind review process.

Contributions must be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atest2024

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Full papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. Work-in-progress and position papers will be reviewed with respect to relevance and their ability to start up fruitful discussions. Tool and technology transfer papers will be evaluated based on improvement on the state-of-the-practice and clarity of lessons learned. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. To prevent double submissions, the chairs may compare the submissions with related conferences that have overlapping review periods. The double submission restriction applies only to refereed journals and conferences, not to unrefereed pre-publication archive servers (e.g., arXiv.org). Submissions that do not comply with the foregoing instructions will be desk rejected without being reviewed.

All accepted contributions will appear in the ACM Digital Library, providing a lasting archived record of the workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the paper in person at A-TEST 2024 in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings.

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the workshop organisers at atest2024@easychair.org