Technical Briefings and TutorialsICST 2025

Call for Technical Briefings and Tutorials

ICST 2025 will feature tutorials and technical briefings on the topics relevant to the conference. For a detailed list of issues, please check the call for papers on the research track here: https://conf.researchr.org/track/icst-2025/icst-2025-papers#Call-for-Papers

Submission Types

In particular, we seek the following types of contributions (inspired by ICSE 2025 CFP):

• Technical Briefings: Introducing a specialized topic related to software testing, verification, and validation, including their applications to novel areas (e.g., foundation models, quantum computing). The duration is 90 minutes.
• Tutorials: A tutorial on more generic topics in software testing, verification, and validation (e.g., search-based software testing, metamorphic testing, etc). The duration is 180 minutes.
• Hands-On Training: Training with specialized software tools related to software testing, verification, and validation. The duration can range from 90 minutes or 180 minutes.

Submission Information

Please submit your proposal in ICST research paper format (not exceeding 4 pages), covering:

• Proposal title
• Authors’ names, affiliations, email addresses, and their short biography
• Submission type and duration
• Abstract of the proposal, including key novelty
• The overall objective, target audience, and background required for the tutorial
• Outline of the technical briefing, tutorial, or hands-on training. For Hands-On training, please also provide details of tools that will be required.

Please, also add few (5-10) representative slides to the proposal in a single PDF file. Please submit your proposal via EasyChair here: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icst2025

Proposal Review Criteria

The ICST Tutorials and Technical Briefings chairs will select a small set of tutorials/technical briefings based on the following:

• Overall quality of the proposal
• Relevance to the conference
• Level of interest they believe the tutorial will attract
• Experience of the presenters
• Avoidance of duplication

The decision about tutorials will be made by the ICST Tutorials and Technical Briefings chairs, in consultation with experts on the relevant topics that are on the committees of other ICST 2025 tracks.

Publication and Conditions

The presenters of each accepted Technical Briefings and Tutorials will have the opportunity to publish a 2-pages abstract in the ICST 2025 Companion proceedings. The abstract must be sent by the deadline of November 21st, 2024, in the same PDF file as the proposal, must conform to the IEEE conference submission and formatting instructions (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html), and must not exceed 2 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Further, upon acceptance, all presenters will be required to provide a short (1-2 minute) video describing their presentation topic to be placed on the ICST website for publicity purposes. ICST 2025 is not able to pay for travel, or other arrangements for tutorial presenters. Tutorial and technical briefings presenters must register and pay the conference registration fees.

Important Dates

• Submission Date: November 21, 2024
• Notification Date: December 19, 2024
• Camera Ready Date: January 19, 2025