ICST 2025: Call for Papers

The 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) will take place in Naples, Italy from March 31 - April 4, 2025.

ICST 2025 invites high-quality submissions in all software testing, verification, and validation areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• AI-assisted software testing
• Automated test generation
• Formal verification
• Manual and social aspects of the software testing process
• Replications, empirical studies, case studies, experience reports
• Software reliability
• Static and dynamic analysis
• Test automation
• Test-driven development and Agile testing
• Testability, test design, and adequacy criteria
• Testing AI-based systems
• Testing and development processes
• Testing, debugging, and repair tools
• Testing education
• Testing in specific domains, such as mobile, web, embedded/cyber-physical systems, concurrent, distributed, cloud, GUI, context-aware, IoT, real-time systems, video games, augmented/virtual reality applications
• Testing of non-functional properties such as security, accessibility, and performance
• Theory of software testing
• Validation and user acceptance techniques

Papers for the research track should present novel and original work that advances the state-of-the-art. Case studies, replication studies, and empirical research papers are also welcome.

Submission Format

• Full Research papers must conform to the two-column IEEE conference publication format and not exceed 10 pages, including all text, figures, tables, and appendices; two additional pages containing only references are permitted.
• It must conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (use the letter format template and conference option).
• The ICST 2025 research track only accepts full research papers. Short papers are not accepted to the research track.
• Authors must comply with the IEEE Plagiarism Guidelines.
• Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the ICST 2025 Program Committee. We employ a double-blind reviewing process.

Submission

Submissions to the Research Papers Track that meet the above requirements can be made via HotCRP at https://icst2025.hotcrp.com/. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for ICST 2025 and present the paper. We expect that the conference will be in-person.

Submissions must supply all information needed to replicate the results and therefore are expected to include or point to an anonymized replication package with the necessary software, data, and instructions.

Important Dates

Date	Track	What
Wed 25 Sep 2024	Research Papers	Abstract Submission Deadline
Wed 2 Oct 2024	Research Papers	Full Paper Submission Deadline
Wed 18 Dec 2024	Research Papers	Author Notification Deadline
Wed 22 Jan 2025	Research Papers	Camera Ready
Mon 1 Sep 2025	Special Issue	Submission Deadline

Program Committee

• Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia (Program Co-Chair)
• Ali Mesbah, University of British Columbia, Canada (Program Co-Chair)
• Rui Abreu, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal
• Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University
• Paolo Arcaini, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Andrea Arcuri, Kristiania University College and Oslo Metropolitan University
• Aitor Arrieta, Mondragon University, Spain
• Benoit Baudry, Université de Montréal, Canada
• Antonia Bertolino, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
• Soneya Binta Hossain, University of Virginia, United States
• Markus Borg, CodeScene, Sweden
• Wing-Kwong Chan, City University of Hong Kong, China
• Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Singapore University of Technology and Design
• Junjie Chen, Tianjin University, China
• Chun Yong Chong, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
• Victor Crespo-Rodriguez, Monash University, Australia
• Marcio Eduardo Delamaro, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
• Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
• Alastair F. Donaldson, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
• Arnaud Gotlieb, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
• Pinjia He, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
• Robert Hierons, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
• Mingyue Jiang, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China
• Nafiseh Kahani, Carleton University, Canada
• Tanjila Kanij
• Timo Kehrer, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Foutse Khomh, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
• Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Christoph Laaber, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
• Huai Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• Francesca Lonetti, CNR-ISTI, Italy
• Yiling Lou, Fudan University, China
• Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, United Kingdom
• Inmaculada Medina-Bulo, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
• Alexandra Mendes, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto & INESC TEC, Portugal
• Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan.
• Neelofar Neelofar, Monash University, Australia
• Tien N. Nguyen, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
• Alberto Núňez, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain.
• Mike Papadakis, University of Luxembourg
• Gilles Perrouin, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS & University of Namur
• Dietmar Pfahl, University of Tartu
• Pak-Lok Poon, School of Engineering & Technology, Central Queensland University, Australia
• Kun Qiu, Hefei University of Technology
• Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Mahidol University
• Aurora Ramírez, University of Córdoba
• Filippo Ricca, DIBRIS, Università di Genova
• Mehrdad Saadatmand, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
• Sergio Segura, SCORE Lab, I3US Institute, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
• Ezekiel Soremekun, Singapore University of Technology and Design
• Thodoris Sotiropoulos, ETH Zurich
• Andrea Stocco, Technical University of Munich, fortiss
• Chang-ai Sun, University of Science and Technology Beijing
• Valerio Terragni, University of Auckland
• Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University
• Silvia Regina Vergilio, Federal University of Paraná
• Thomas Vogel, Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin
• Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University
• Shiyi Wei, University of Texas at Dallas
• Franz Wotawa, Graz University of Technology
• Xiaoyuan Xie, Wuhan University
• Shin Yoo, KAIST
• Xi Zheng, Macquarie University
• Ronnie de Souza Santos, University of Calgary
• Arie van Deursen, TU Delft