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C A L L F O R P A P E R S

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3rd International Workshop on

"The Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis"

- ROSATEA 2007 -

July 10-11, 2007

http://www.di.univaq.it/Rosatea2007

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MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

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ROSATEA 2007 represents the third edition of a series of events
investigating

the Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis. Previous
editions

have focused on what to expect from this new research area (ROSATEA,
centered

on the theme "se son rose, fioriranno"), and on evaluating to which extent
the

expectations of this new discipline had been met in after the last few years


(ROSATEA 2006, on the theme "son fiorite, ed ora quanto cresceranno"?)



The upcoming ROSATEA will continue investigating how current testing and

analysis techniques meet new standards and future trends in the light of the


current advances in software architecture, while focusing on the
applicability

and application of software architecture-based testing and analysis in
industrial

practices. Therefore, ROSATEA 2007 will seek both theoretical papers which
can

influence future research in this field, and also papers that offer insight
on

how SA-based testing and analysis is practiced and automated, and on
challenges,

problems and solutions being encountered by practitioners.



ROSATEA 2007 will be a component of CompArch 2007, the Federated Events on

Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture. It will
bring

together the 10th Int. Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering
(CBSE 2007),

the 3rd Int. Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures
(QoSA 2007)

and ROSATEA 2007 itself. The aim of this federated event is to investigate
the

relationship between Software Architecture, Component-based Systems and
Analysis,

Quality and Testing.





MAIN TOPICS

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The core topics of the workshop can be divided into four main areas:



Industrial needs:

"practicing" analysis and testing of software architectures;

improving software architecture-based analysis in the industry;

testing "automation";

reports about industrial case studies, challenges, problems and
solutions.



Functional and non functional analysis:

software architecture-based testing;

model-checking software architectures;

slicing at the architecture level;

software architecture-based performance and reliability
analysis;

architecture-driven code testing and analysis;

software architecture for security;

modeling for analysis and testing;

"fault models" at the architectural level;

ADL-based analysis and testing of software architectures;

dependability via software architecture analysis and testing.



Integration:

"model-driven" techniques for software architecture-based
analysis and testing;

"aspect-oriented" techniques for software architecture-based
analysis and testing;

"component-based" analysis at the software architecture level;

integration of different analysis techniques at the architecture
level.



New Trends:

software-architecture based analysis and testing "through" the
development life cycle;

analysis and testing of "dynamic", "reconfigurable" and
"evolvable" software architectures;

analysis and testing of "service oriented" software
architectures;

architecting "fault tolerant" systems;

"product line architecture" testing.



Please note that this list should not technically restrict or be a
constraint for paper

submissions.





IMPORTANT DATES

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Papers submission: Feb 16, 2007

Notification: Apr 06, 2007

Camera Ready: May 07, 2007

Workshop: July 10-11, 2007





COMMITTEES

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>Program co-chairs:

Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Marlon Vieira, Siemens Corporate Research, USA



>Publicity chairs:

Rajesh Subramanyan, Siemens Corporate Research, USA

John McGregor, Clemson University, USA



>Program committee:

Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy

Ana Cavalli, Institut National des Telecommunications, France

Michel R.V. Chaudron, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Ivica Crnkovic, Malardalen University, Sweden

Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University, USA

Rogerio de Lemos, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA

David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Holger Giese, University of Paderborn, Germany

Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Research, USA

Alan Hartman, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

Jean Hartman, Microsoft, USA

Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK

Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Thierry Jeron, IRISA, France

Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

John McGregor, Clemson University, USA

Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Daniel Paulish, Siemens Corporate Research, USA

Patrizio Pelliccione, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, USA

Debra J. Richardson, University of California Irvine, USA

Judith Stafford, Tufts University, USA

Rajesh Subramanyan, Siemens Corporate Research, USA

Marlon Vieira, Siemens Corporate Research, USA

Clay Williams, IBM Watson Research Center, USA

James Woods, Nokia-Siemens, Boca Raton, USA

Hadar Ziv, University of California Irvine, USA





SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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Papers in tree distinct categories are solicited:



Future trend (short) papers: describing ongoing research, new results,

and future trends (maximum 5 pages).



Industry-oriented papers: industrial experience, case studies, challenges,
problems and

solutions (maximum 10 pages).



Research papers: describing the state-of-the art in Software
Architecture-based

analysis and testing (maximum 10 pages).



Papers should be submitted in PDF in ACM conference format.

All submissions must be in English.



This year, QoSA and ROSATEA will be held jointly for the first time.

Where QoSA broadly addresses software quality and how it is affected by
software

architecture, ROSATEA has a specific focus on software testing and analysis
and

how those relate to software architecture. Authors are free to submit their
paper

to the (one) event of their choice, but are encouraged to make the choice
based

on their contribution's most appropriate audience. Since the events are
collocated

but won't overlap in time, both presenters and attendees will be free to
attend

both events. (There is also a third federated event that will overlap with
ROSATEA,

CBSE, with a specific focus on using component-based approaches to software
engineering.)



REVIEW PROCESS

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In order to improve the integration among the different communities involved
in

and related to software architecture-based testing and analysis, program
committee

members have been selected to cover different research areas such as
testing,

component-based systems, software architecture, functional and non
functional analysis,

model-based testing, dependability and others.



At least three members of the Program Committee will review each submission.
The

program committee members will meet (electronically) to review and discuss
the

submissions and make final decisions about which submissions to accept for

presentation at the workshop.



Selection will be based both on originality of the idea as well as its
ability to

generate productive discussion. In particular, "future trend" papers will be


evaluated mostly according to their originality, novelty and ability to
generate

discussion, "industrial" papers will be evaluated based on the experience
and

solutions reported and ability to scale to other domains, "research" papers
will be

evaluated based on their originality and maturity.



PROCEEDINGS

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Accepted papers will be published in ACM Digital Library <pending>. An
extended

version of the best accepted papers will be considered for the Journal of
Systems

and Software - new section on Software Architecture.

Please also consider that if accepted, the paper must be personally
presented at

the ROSATEA 2007 workshop by the author or one of the co-authors.





REVIEW PROCESS:

...............................

At least three members of the Program Committee will review each submission.
The

program committee members will meet (electronically) to review and discuss
the

submissions and make final decisions about which submissions to accept for

presentation at the workshop.



Selection will be based both on originality of the idea as well as its
ability to

generate productive discussion. In particular, ``future trend" papers will
be

evaluated mostly according to their originality, novelty and ability to
generate

discussion, ``industrial" papers will be evaluated based on the experience
and

solutions reported and ability to scale to other domains, ``research" papers
will

be evaluated based on their originality and maturity.





PREVIOUS and FUTURE EDITIONS:

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Due to the high intersection we found between software architecture-based
analysis

and testing and other communities such as model-based testing,
component-based

analysis, dynamic systems (and others), while the first edition of ROSATEA
was

a standalone event, ROSATEA 2006 has been co-located with the Int. Symposium
on

Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2006), and ROSATEA 2007 will be part of the
Federated

Events on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture,
which

brings together CBSE, QoSA, and ROSATEA.

We plan to continue co-locating ROSATEA with such or different related
communities,

so to fully understand the role of software architecture testing and
analysis in

the software engineering community.



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