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Erfurt, Germany, September 27-30, 2004 |
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In Cooperation with
Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI) e.V. - Fachbereich Softwaretechnik.
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Proceedings will be published as a volume of the
Lecture Notes in Informatics Series of GI.
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methods and techniques for the testing and debugging of components
as well as systems built using components.
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http://www.paperdyne.com/tecos04/cfp.html
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A major trend in software engineering is that of component-based
development. The underlying idea of component-based development
is to use existing components for the construction of a software
system and to construct it by integrating them instead of programming
the software system from scratch. The expected benefits of using
components in software development and the motivations for component-based
development are manifold. Among others, quality of the software
system developed is expected to be positively affected by the
use of components. Components are expected to reach a high level
of quality in a short period of time and software systems consisting
of such components to inherit this high level of quality. However,
this expectation does not always hold in practice. Quality improvements,
particularly when using specific type components characterized
as commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), cannot be easily achieved
and require certain provisions. Known testing and debugging approaches,
however, can only be applied to a limited extend when COTS components
and respective systems are under consideration. One reason is
that the necessary artifacts, such as source code, are seldom
available to the tester. COTS components and systems consisting
of COTS components require specific approaches, the focus of
this workshop.
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The workshop has three main objectives:
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Firstly, it aims at outlining the problems and open issues encountered
in testing and debugging COTS components, which differs in various
aspects from the testing and debugging of other software entities.
The differences are not always obvious and need to be defined
more precisely.
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Secondly, the workshop aims at summarizing current research
in the area of COTS components testing and debugging. In recent
years, research in this area has made significant progress, so
a comprehensive look at the state of the art will help to shape
our activities in the future.
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Thirdly, once we have an understanding of the problems/open
issues and a summary of current research, the workshop aims at
developing a road map for future research. This road map will
be developed by presentations of the attendees' positions and
a panel discussion. The results of the discussion will be summarized
as the road map.
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Workshop participants will be invited speakers from both academia
and industry, as well as authors of papers submitted to the workshop.
We plan to invite academic speakers to present their view and
position on testing and debugging components and corresponding
systems. Furthermore, we also plan to invite industry representatives
who have been involved in large industrial software development
projects and will summarize their experiences in the workshop.
Besides these invited talks, we will also open the workshop for
participation on paper submission basis.
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Submissions may not exceed 16 pages and have to adhere to the
layout requirements of the LNI Series, which can be found
here.
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Workshop Program Committee Chairs:
Sami Beydeda (beydeda@ebus.informatik.uni-leipzig.de)
Volker Gruhn (gruhn@ebus.informatik.uni-leipzig.de)
University of Leipzig, Germany
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Workshop Program Commitee:
Franck Barbier (University of Pau, France)
Fevzi Belli (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Jean-Michel Bruel (University of Pau, France)
T.Y. Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Giovanni Denaro (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy)
Anne Eerola (University of Kuopio, Finland)
Christof Fetzer (AT&T Shannon Laboratory, USA)
Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Engin Kirda (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
Atif Memon (University of Maryland, USA)
Hong Zhu (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
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