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<div><b><font color="#ff0000">ISSTA 2017 Demonstrations</font></b></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> http://conf.researchr.org/track/issta-2017/issta-2017-demos</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Call for Papers</b></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Analysis (ISSTA) 2017 Demonstrations Track serves as a venue for</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">publishing and presenting advances in software testing and analysis</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">tools that aid either practice, research, or both. Submissions may</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">describe early prototypes of tools, mature tools, and everything</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">inbetween. To help disseminate tools to the community, we encourage</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">submissions describing previously unpublished tools whose underlying</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">techniques may have already been published.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Highlighting scientific contributions through concrete artifacts is a</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">critical supplement to the traditional research papers published at</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">software engineering venues, including ISSTA. A demonstration provides</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the opportunity to communicate how the scientific approach has been</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">implemented or how a specific hypothesis has been assessed, including</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">implementation and usage details, data models and representations, and</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">APIs for tool and data access. Authors of regular research papers at</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ISSTA or other conferences are thus also encouraged to submit an</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">accompanying demonstration paper. However, the demonstration papers</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">must be original, and the tools must not have been previously</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">demonstrated or be concurrently under review at ISSTA or at another</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">venue.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The tool demonstrations must communicate clearly the following information:</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> the toolís envisioned users,</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> the software testing and analysis challenge(s) the tool addresses,</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> how the tool is used,</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> either results of conducted validation studies or the design of planned studies.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Evaluation</b></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the demonstrations selection committee. The evaluation criteria include:</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> the relevance of the proposed demonstration to the ISSTA audience,</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> the technical soundness of the demonstrated tool,</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> the originality of the underlying ideas,</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> the quality of its presentation,</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> the comparison to related work.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>How to Submit</b></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submissions must conform to the ACM Conference Format. A demonstration</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">submission may not exceed four pages, including all text, figures, and</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">references. A submission may not have been previously published in a</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">demonstration form. The paper submission must be in PDF. The</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Demonstrations track will be using the single-blind reviewing model,</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">so the submitted PDFs should identify the authors.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submit your papers via the EasyChair ISSTA Demonstrations 2017</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">submission website by May 2, 2017, 23:59:59 AoE. Important Dates:</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(there will be no extensions)</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Submission deadline: May 2, 2017, 23:59:59 AoE.</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Notification date: May 20, 2017</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Camera-ready version deadline: May 27, 2017</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Organization</b></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For further information, please email the chairs at isstatools2017@easychair.org</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Co-Chairs:</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Yuriy Brun, University of Massachusetts, Amherst</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Neha Rungta, Amazon Web Services, Inc.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Program Committee:</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Ivan Beschastnikh, University of British Columbia</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Milos Gligoric, The University of Texas at Austin</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Jeff Huang, Texas A&M University</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Eric Mercer, Brigham Young University</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Suzette Person, University of NebraskañLincoln</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Justyna Petke, University College London</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Federica Sarro, University College London</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Elena Sherman, Boise State University</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Kathryn T. Stolee, North Carolina State University</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Oksana Tkachuk, NASAís Ames Research Center</div>
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