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***** SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE (SOQUA 2006) *****
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* co-located with ACM SIGSOFT 2006 / FSE 14 *
* Portland Oregon, USA, November 6, 2006 *
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- Invited Speaker: Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
- Proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library
- EARLY REGISTRATION until Monday, 9 October, 11pm PDT!
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=== THEME AND GOALS ===

The goal of software engineering is to achieve high-quality software
in a cost-effective, timely, and reproducible manner. Advances in
technology are enabling reductions in cost and schedule, but their effect
on software quality assurance often remains unknown. Object-oriented
concepts, component technology, components off the shelf (COTS) and
open source software can dramatically reduce development time; however,
assuring the quality of systems using these concepts is problematic.

The task of measuring and assuring the quality of software systems is
getting harder with the advent of new software development processes.
As an example, agile methods explicitly allow customers to change
requirements very late in the project. Agile methods also take a "light
weight" approach to project documentation and software testing. Reducing
process overhead can improve response to change and speed product
delivery, but may also adversely affect the project's risk profile. Little
data exists on the quality of industrial systems developed using Agile
methods.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers,
and practitioners to discuss and evaluate the latest challenges and
breakthroughs in the field of software quality assurance and to identify
future trends and problems in this area.


=== PROGRAM ===

Monday, November 6, 2006: SOQUA Program

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome (Johannes Mayer, General Chair;
Neelam Gupta and Yves Ledru, PC Co-Chairs)

09:15 - 10:15 Keynote

"Challenge Problems in Software Testing"
Wolfram Schulte (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA)

10:15 - 10:30 Short Paper

Subsumption of Program Entities for Efficient Coverage and Monitoring
Raul Santelices, Saurabh Sinha, Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech, USA)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Regular Paper Session 1: Software Testing

An Empirical Comparison between Direct and Indirect Test Result
Checking Approaches
Peifeng Hu, Zhenyu Zhang (The University of Hong Kong, China),
W. K. Chan (City University of Hong Kong, China),
T. H. Tse (The University of Hong Kong, China)

Test Automation for Hybrid Systems
Jan Peleska (University of Bremen, Germany), Martin Fränzle, Tino Teige,
Bahareh Badban (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany)

Adaptive Random Testing through Iterative Partitioning Revisited
Johannes Mayer (Ulm University, Germany), Tsong Yueh Chen,
Dehao Huang (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 Regular Paper Session 2: Metrics for Quality Assurance

A Quality Model for Design Documentation in Model-centric Projects
Lars Pareto (CHALMERS / IT University of Göteborg, Sweden),
Urban Boquist (Ericsson Software Research)

Integrating a Model of Analytical Quality Assurance into the V-ModellXT
Stefan Wagner, Michael Meisinger (TU München, Germany)

Towards a Unified Coupling Framework for Aspect-Oriented Programming
Thiago Bartolomei (Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany),
Alessandro Garcia, Claudio Sant'Anna,
Eduardo Figueiredo (Lancaster University, UK)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 Regular Paper Session 3: Testing and Fault Detection

Model-Based Approach for Testing the Performance of Web Applications
Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Mahnaz Shams,
Behrouz Far (University of Calgary, Canada)

Discriminative Pattern Mining in Software Fault Detection
Evghenia Stegantova, Giuseppe Di Fatta,
Stefan Leue (University of Konstanz, Germany)

On-line Anomaly Detection of Deployed Software: A Statistical Machine
Learning Approach
George K. Baah, Alexander Gray, Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech, USA)

17:30 Workshop Closing


Tuesday-Thursday, November 7-9, 2006: ACM SIGSOFT/FSE Program


=== REGISTRATION ===

Registration for the SOQUA workshop and the ACM SIGSOFT/FSE conference is
available at

http://www.regonline.com/sigsoft06

Early registration is possible until Monday, 9 October, 11pm PDT.


=== ORGANIZATION ===

GENERAL CHAIR

Johannes Mayer (Ulm University, Germany)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Neelam Gupta (The University of Arizona, USA)
Yves Ledru (LSR/IMAG, University of Grenoble, France)

STEERING COMMITTEE

T.Y. Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Hans-Dieter Ehrich (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
Johannes Mayer (Ulm University, Germany) - CHAIR
Patrick J. Schroeder (Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA)
Franz Schweiggert (Ulm University, Germany)
Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Ilinca Ciupa (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Ralph Guderlei (Ulm University, Germany)
Johannes Mayer (Ulm University, Germany) - CHAIR
Teade Punter (LaQuSo - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Silvia Abrahão (Valencia University of Technology, Spain)
Paul Ammann (George Mason University, USA)
Sami Beydeda (ZIVIT, Germany)
T.Y. Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Giovanni Denaro (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Silke Eckstein (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
Hans-Dieter Ehrich (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
Wolfgang Grieskamp (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA)
Sarfraz Khurshid (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Fei-Ching Kuo (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Darko Marinov (University of Illinois, USA)
Oscar Pastor (Valencia University of Technology, Spain)
Mauro Pezzè (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy)
Mario Piattini (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Lori Pollock (University of Delaware, USA)
Franz Schweiggert (Ulm University, Germany)
Christel Seguin (ONERA centre de Toulouse, France)
Gabi Taentzer (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Willem Visser (RIACS/NASA Ames, USA)
Bernard Wong (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Eric Wong (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Andreas Zeller (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)