ICST 2015

8th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

13 - 17 April 2015, Graz, Austria

Author Instructions for ICST 2015 Workshops Final Paper Submission

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Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper to one of the ICST Workshops.

This site helps you with the final preparation and submission of your paper.
If you have problems when submitting the paper please contact paperSubmission@ist.tugraz.at.
For information about the registration, please visit the conference web site.

Overview

Workshop Final submission deadline* Maximal number of pages
TAIC PART March, 24th 2015, 23:59 AoE 8 pages (regular paper)
4 pages (fast abstract)
SECTEST March, 20th 2015, 23:59 AoE 8 pages (full paper)
2 pages (short paper)
4 pages (tool demonstration)
Mutation March, 31st 2015, 23:59 AoE 10 pages (full paper)
6 pages (short paper)
6 pages (industrial paper)
IWCT March, 31st 2015, 23:59 AoE 10 pages (full paper)
4 pages (short paper)
InSTA March, 30th 2015, 23:59 AoE 10 pages (research paper)
6 pages (industrial experience report)
6 papges (emerging idea proposal)
A-MOST March, 24th 2015, 23:59 AoE 10 pages (research paper)
6 pages (short paper)
ASQT March, 24th 2015, 23:59 AoE 10 pages (full paper)
2 pages (extended abstract)
* Please make sure to submit your paper on time. Late submission will not be included in the proceedings.

Steps for the paper submission

  1. Prepare your manuscript
    Please make use of the templates when preparing your final version.
    Your paper must not exceed the page limit indicated in the Overview section. Please do not include pagination.
  2. Submit the IEEE Electronic Copyright Form (eCF)
    Please submit one copyright form per paper, not per author.
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  3. Add the copyright information to your paper
    The copyright information must be indicted as footnote on the bottom of the left column of the first page and consists of three parts:
    1. The name of the proceedings:
      2015 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW)
    2. The name of the workshop:
      • 10th Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC PART)
      • 6th International Workshop on Security Testing (SECTEST 2015)
      • 10th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis (Mutation 2015)
      • 4th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2015)
      • 2nd International Workshop on Software Test Architecture (InSTA 2015)
      • 12th Workshop on Advances in Model Based Testing (A-MOST 2015)
      • 13th User Symposium on Software Quality, Test and Innovation (ASQT 2015)
    3. The copyright notice:
      • For papers in which all authors are employed by the US government:
        U.S. Government work not protected by U.S. copyright
      • For papers in which all authors are employed by a Crown government (UK, Canada, and Australia):
        978-1-4799-1885-0/15/$31.00 ©2015 Crown
      • For papers in which all authors are employed by the European Union:
        978-1-4799-1885-0/15/$31.00 ©2015 European Union
      • For all other papers:
        978-1-4799-1885-0/15/$31.00 ©2015 IEEE
    If you are using LaTeX you may copy the following code into your preample:
    \def \ICSTW {2015 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW)}
    \def \TAICPART {10th Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC PART)}
    \def \SECTEST {6th International Workshop on Security Testing (SECTEST 2015)}
    \def \MUTATION {10th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis (Mutation 2015)}
    \def \IWCT {4th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2015)}
    \def \INSTA {2nd International Workshop on Software Test Architecture (InSTA 2015)}
    \def \AMOST {12th Workshop on Advances in Model Based Testing (A-MOST 2015)}
    \def \ASQT {13th User Symposium on Software Quality, Test and Innovation (ASQT 2015)}
    
    \def \UScopyright {U.S. Government work not protected by U.S. copyright}
    \def \UKcopyright {978-1-4799-1885-0/15/\$31.00 \copyright 2015 Crown}
    \def \EUcopyright {978-1-4799-1885-0/15/\$31.00 \copyright 2015 European Union}
    \def \IEEEcopyright {978-1-4799-1885-0/15/\$31.00 \copyright 2015 IEEE}
    
    \newcommand{\copyrights}[2]{%
    \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{}%
    \footnotetext{\ICSTW \\ #1 \\ #2}
    \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}}%
    }
    
    Additionally add the following code into the document part of your .tex file before the first section and change WORKSHOP and COPYRIGHT to your workshop and your copyright notice:
    \copyrights{\WORKSHOP}{\COPYRIGHT}% ToDo change \WORKSHOP and \COPYRIGHT to your Workshop and Copyright notice
    
    For example, the copyright information for a paper accepted at the TAIC PART workshop could be:
    ...
    \begin{abstract}
    The abstract goes here.
    \end{abstract}
    
    \copyrights{\TAICPART}{\IEEEcopyright}
    
    \section{Introduction}
    ...
    
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