ICST 2023

Submission timeline

• 20 Oct 2022 Full paper
• 16 Dec 2022 Notification

• 16 Apr 2023 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

10 pages IEEE (+ 2 pages for references)

Proceedings

IEEE — Paywalled

Double-blind reviewing. Experimental data must be replicable. Also journal-first, doctoral symposium, software testing contest, tool demos, industry track papers … Deadline extension: 7 days (2017), 4 days (2018), 2 days (2019), 7 days (2022)

Call for papers

• As first published ICST-2023.txt · TXT · shown below

The call, as published

Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement. The conference’s own page is at conf.researchr.org/home/icst-2023.

Call for papers: IEEE International Conference on Software Testing,
Verification and Validation (ICST) 2023.
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ICST 2023 (https://conf.researchr.org/home/icst-2023) invites
high-quality submissions in all areas of software testing,
verification, and validation. Papers for the research track should
present novel and original work that advances the state-of-the-art.
Case studies and empirical research papers are also welcome.

*Topics of Interest*
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

-Fuzz testing
-Manual testing practices and techniques
-Search-based software testing
-Security testing
-Model-based testing
-Test automation
-Static analysis and symbolic execution
-Formal verification and model checking
-Software reliability
-Social aspects of software testing process
-Testability and design
-Testing and development processes
-Testing education
-Testing in specific domains, such as mobile, web, embedded,
concurrent, distributed, cloud, GUI, and real-time systems
-Testing for learning-enabled software, including deep learning
-Testing video games, augmented reality
-Testing for cyber-physical systems
-Testing/debugging tools
-Theory of software testing
-Empirical studies
-Experience reports

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the ICST
Program Committee.

Papers that have a strong industrial/practical component and focus
more on impact rather than (technical) novelty are encouraged to
consider the industry track instead.

*Submission Format*
Full Research papers, as well as Industry papers, must conform to the
two-column IEEE conference publication format, not exceed 10 pages,
including all text, figures, tables, and appendices; two additional
pages containing only references are permitted. It must conform to the
IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (please use the
letter format template and conference option). The ICST 2023 research
track only accepts full research papers. Short papers are not accepted
to the research track.

The submission must also comply with the ACM plagiarism policy and
procedures. In particular, it must not have been published elsewhere
and must not be under review elsewhere while under review for ICST.
The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.

Lastly, the ICST 2023 Research papers track will employ a double-blind
review process. Thus, no submission may reveal its authors’
identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the
double-blind review process. In particular, the authors’ names must be
omitted from the submission, and references to their prior work should
be in the third person. Further advice, guidance, and explanation
about the double-blind review process can be found in the Q&A page.

Submissions to the Research Papers Track that meet the above
requirements can be made via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icst2023).
Any submission that does not comply with the above requirements may be
rejected by the PC Chairs without further review.
If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is
required to attend the conference and present the paper for it to be
published in the ICST 2023 conference proceedings.
*Replication Material*
Submissions must supply all information that is needed to replicate
the results, and therefore are expected to include or point to a
replication package with the necessary software, data, and
instructions. Reviewers may consult these packages to resolve open
issues. There can be good reasons for the absence of a replication
package, such as confidential code and/or data, the research being
mostly qualitative, or the paper being fully self-contained. If a
paper does not come with a replication package, authors should comment
on its absence in the submission data; reviewers will take such
comments into account.
*Important Dates*
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   Submission deadline: 20 Oct 2022
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   Decision notification: 16 Dec 2022