ISSTA 2022

Submission timeline

• 28 Jan 2022 Full paper
• 11 Apr 2022 Notification

• 18 Jul 2022 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

10 pages ACM (+ 2 pages references)

Proceedings

ACM — ACM Digital Library

Double blind. Author Response Period (23-25 March 2022).

Call for papers

• As first published ISSTA-2022.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/issta-2022.

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                                     The 31st Edition of ISSTA
                                             Call for Papers

                               Mon 18th - Fri 22nd July 2022
                                     Daejeon, South Korea
                       https://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2022
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The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
(ISSTA) is the leading research symposium on software testing and analysis,
bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners to
exchange new ideas, problems, and experience on how to analyze and test
software systems. 2022 will mark the 31st edition of ISSTA.

ISSTA invites three kinds of submissions. The clear majority of submissions
is expected to be “Technical Papers”, but submissions that best fit the
description of “Experience Papers” or “Replicability Studies” should be
submitted as such.


Technical Papers
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Authors are invited to submit research papers describing original
contributions in testing or analysis of computer software. Papers
describing original theoretical or empirical research, new techniques,
methods for emerging systems, in-depth case studies, infrastructures of
testing and analysis, or tools are welcome.

Experience Papers
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Authors are invited to submit experience papers describing a significant
experience in applying software testing and analysis methods or tools and
should carefully identify and discuss important lessons learned so that
other researchers and/or practitioners can benefit from the experience. Of
special interest are experience papers that report on industrial
applications of software testing and analysis methods or tools.

Reproducibility Studies
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ISSTA would like to encourage researchers to replicate results from
previous papers. A replicability study must go beyond simply
re-implementing an algorithm and/or re-running the artifacts provided by
the original paper. It should at the very least apply the approach to new,
significantly broadened inputs. Particularly, replicability studies are
encouraged to target techniques that previously were evaluated only on
proprietary subject programs or inputs. A replicability study should
clearly report on results that the authors were able to replicate as well
as on aspects of the work that were not replicable. In the latter case,
authors are encouraged to make an effort to communicate or collaborate with
the original paper’s authors to determine the cause for any observed
discrepancies and, if possible, address them (e.g., through minor
implementation changes). We explicitly encourage authors to not focus on a
single paper/artifact only, but instead to perform a comparative experiment
of multiple related approaches.

In particular, replicability studies should follow the ACM guidelines on
replicability (different team, different experimental setup): The
measurement can be obtained with stated precision by a different team, a
different measuring system, in a different location on multiple trials. For
computational experiments, this means that an independent group can obtain
the same result using artifacts which they develop completely
independently. This means that it is also insufficient to focus on
reproducibility (i.e., different team, same experimental setup) alone.
Replicability Studies will be evaluated according to the following
standards:

- Depth and breadth of experiments
- Clarity of writing
- Appropriateness of conclusions
- Amount of useful, actionable insights
- Availability of artifacts

We expect replicability studies to clearly point out the artifacts the
study is built on, and to submit those artifacts to artifact evaluation
(see below). Artifacts evaluated positively will be eligible to obtain the
prestigious Results Reproduced badge.


Submissions Guideline
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Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously
or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for ISSTA.
Authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on
Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous
Submissions. More details are available at the Submission Policies page.

Research and Experience Papers as well as Replicability Studies should be
at most 10 pages in length, with at most 2 additional pages for references.
Experience papers and replicability studies should clearly specify their
category in the paper title upon submission, e.g., “XXX (Experience
Paper)”. All authors should use the official “ACM Master article template”,
which can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template pages [1]. Latex
users should use the “sigconf” option, as well as the “review” (to produce
line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers) and “anonymous” (omitting
author names) options. To that end, the following latex code can be placed
at the start of the latex document:

\documentclass[sigconf,review, anonymous]{acmart}
\acmConference[ISSTA 2022]{ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software
Testing and Analysis}{18-22 July, 2022}{Daejeon, South Korea}

Submit your papers via the HotCRP ISSTA 2022 submission website [2].

Double-blind Reviewing
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ISSTA 2022 will conduct double-blind reviewing. Submissions should not
reveal the identity of the authors in any way. Authors should leave out
author names and affiliations from the body of their submission. They
should also ensure that any citations to related work by themselves are
written in third person, that is, “the prior work of XYZ” as opposed to
“our prior work”.

Double-blind reviewing should not hinder the usual communication of
results. But, during the review period, please don’t broadcast the work on
social media. Also, to the extent possible, consider not publishing
preprints of your work during or right before the review period.

Authors with further questions on double-blind reviewing are encouraged to
contact the Program Chair by email.

Supplementary Material
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Authors are free to provide supplementary material if that material
supports the claims in the paper. Such material may include proofs,
experimental results, and/or data sets. This material should be uploaded at
the same time as the submission. Any supplementary material must also be
anonymized. Reviewers are not required to examine the supplementary
material but may refer to it if they would like to find further evidence
supporting the claims in the paper. Please prepare the supplementary
material in the PDF format.

Auhtor Responses
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Reviews will be followed by an author response. After the response, some
papers may receive additional reviews, if necessary, to which authors can
respond in a second author-response phase.

Visa Policy
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In cases where the travel Visa is rejected or delayed for a long time
(e.g., due to additional checks) so that the authors are not able to attend
the conference despite best efforts, alternative presentation methods will
be considered. However, the authors should notify the program chair at
least one week before the conference and provide proof of visa being
applied in time.

Important Dates
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- Paper submission: 28 January 2022 (Fri)
- Author response: 23-25 March 2022 (Wed–Fri)
- Paper notification: 11 April 2022 (Mon)

More Information
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For additional information, please visit the ISSTA 2022 website [3].

[1] https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
[2] https://issta22.hotcrp.com
[3] https://conf.researchr.org/track/issta-2022/issta-2022-technical-papers

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