(Apologies if you receive this announcement multiple times. We also apologize for resending the first call for papers, the original announcement contained an incorrect URL to easychair.) **************************************************** *** *** *** TAP 2013 *** *** *** *** Abstract submission: January 25, 2013 *** *** Paper submission: February 1, 2013 *** **************************************************** *** TAP 2013 solicits both full papers and *** *** (industrial) experience/tool papers *** *** in combining proofs and (security) testing *** **************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TESTS AND PROOFS (TAP 2013) http://www.spacios.eu/TAP2013 Budapest, Hungary, June 17-21, 2013 The TAP conference is devoted to the synergy of proofs and tests, to the application of techniques from both sides and their combination for the advancement of software quality. Testing and proving seem to be contradictory techniques: once you have proved your program to be correct then additional testing seems pointless; on the other hand, when such a proof in not feasible, then testing the program seems to be the only option. This view has dominated the research community since the dawn of computer science, and has resulted in distinct communities pursuing the seemingly orthogonal research areas. However, the development of both approaches has lead to the discovery of common issues and to the realization of potential synergy. Perhaps, use of model checking in testing was one of the first signs that a counterexample to a proof may be interpreted as a test case. Recent breakthroughs in deductive techniques such as satisfiability modulo theories, abstract interpretation, and interactive theorem proving, have paved the way for new and practically effective methods of powering testing techniques. Moreover, since formal, proof-based verification is costly, testing invariants and background theories can be helpful to detect errors early and to improve cost effectiveness. Summing up, in the past few years an increasing number of research efforts have encountered the need for combining proofs and tests, dropping earlier dogmatic views of incompatibility and taking instead the best of what each of these software engineering domains has to offer. The TAP conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the converging fields of testing and proving, and will offer a generous allocation of papers, panels and informal discussions. Topics of interest cover theory definitions, tool constructions and experimentations, and include (other topics related to TAP are welcome): - Bridging the gap between concrete and symbolic techniques, e.g. using proof search in satisfiability modulo theories solvers to enhance various testing techniques - Transfer of concepts from testing to proving (e.g., coverage criteria) and from proving to testing - Program proving with the aid of testing techniques - New problematics in automated reasoning emerging from specificities of test generation - Verification and testing techniques combining proofs and tests - Generation of test data, oracles, or preambles by deductive techniques such as: theorem proving, model checking, symbolic execution, constraint logic programming - Model-based testing and verification - Generation of specifications by deduction - Automatic bug finding - Debugging of programs combining static and dynamic analysis - Formal frameworks - Tool descriptions and experience reports - Case studies combining tests and proofs - Domain specific applications of testing and proving to new application domains such as validating security protocols, vulnerability detection of programs, security Important Dates: ================ Abstract submission: January 25, 2013 Paper submission: February 1, 2013 Notification: March 3, 2013 Camera ready version: April 5, 2013 TAP conference: June 17-21, 2013 Program Chairs: =============== Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, USA) Luca Vigano` (University of Verona, Italy) Program Committee: ================== TBA Submission: =========== Please submit your papers via easychair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2013 (submission page to be opened in due time) TAP 2013 will accept two types of papers: - Research papers: full papers with at most 16 pages in LNCS format (pdf), which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. - Short contributions: work in progress, (industrial) experience reports or tool demonstrations, position statements; an extended abstract with at most 6 pages in LNCS format (pdf) is expected. Subject to final approval by Springer, accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series and will be available at the conference. The contents of previous TAP proceedings is available at: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/tap/ -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker, SAP AG, SAP Research Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Phone: +49 6227 7-52595 http://www.brucker.ch