[fg-arc] QUDOS Deadline extended to Jan 20/23, 2017 --- CfP for QUDOS 2017: 3rd Workshop on Quality-aware DevOps @ ACM/SPEC ICPE

Andre van Hoorn van.hoorn at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Thu Jan 5 09:24:57 CET 2017


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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                               QUDOS 2017
            3rd International Workshop on Quality-Aware DevOps

                         Co-located with the
   8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
                             (ICPE 2017)

                          L’Aquila, Italy
                           April 27, 2017

                  http://qudos2017.fortiss.org/

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IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission deadline            Jan 20, 2017 (AoE)*
Tool paper abstract deadline (mandatory)  Jan 20, 2017 (AoE)*
Tool paper submission deadline            Jan 23, 2017 (AOE)*
Paper notification                        Feb 10, 2017
Camera-ready deadline                     Feb 16, 2017
Workshop date                           April 27, 2017

 *deadline extended

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SCOPE AND TOPICS

DevOps has emerged in recent years as a set of principles and practices
for smoothing out the gap between development and operations, thus
enabling faster release cycles for complex IT services. Common tools
and methods used in DevOps include infrastructure as code, continuous
deployment, automated testing, continuous integration, and new
architectural styles such as microservices.

As of today, software engineering research has mainly explored these
problems from a functional perspective, trying to increase the benefits
and generality of these methods for the end users. However, this has
left behind the definition of methods and tools for DevOps to assess,
predict, and verify quality dimensions.

The QUDOS workshop focuses on the problem of how to best define and
integrate quality assurance methods and tools in DevOps. Quality covers
a broadly-defined set of dimensions including functional correctness,
performance, reliability, safety, survivability, and cost of ownership,
among others. To answer this question, the QUDOS workshop wants to
bring together experts from  academia and industry working in areas
such as quality assurance, testing, performance engineering, agile
software engineering, and model-based development. The goal is to
identify and disseminate novel quality-aware approaches to DevOps.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 * Foundations of quality assurance in DevOps:
   Methodologies; integration with lifecycle management; automated
   tool chains; architecture patterns; etc.
 * Architectural issues in DevOps:
   Scalability and capacity planning; scale-out architectures;
   cloud-native application design; microservice-based architectures
 * Quality assurance in the development phase:
   Software models and requirements in early software development
   phases; functional and non-functional testing; languages,
   annotations and profiles for quality assurance; quality analysis,
   verification and prediction; optimization-based architecture design;
   etc.
 * Quality assurance during operation:
   Application performance monitoring; model-driven performance
   measurement and benchmarking; feedback-based quality assurance;
   capacity planning and forecasting; architectural improvements;
   performance anti-pattern detection; traceability and versioning;
   trace and log analysis; software regression and testing; performance
   monitoring and analytics; etc.
 * Continuous deployment and live experimentation:
   CI and CD in DevOps; canary releases and partial rollouts; A/B
   testing; performance and scalability testing via shadow launches
 * Applications of DevOps:
   Case Studies in cloud computing, Big Data, and IoT; standardization
   and interoperability; novel application domains, etc.
 * All other topics related to quality in DevOps and agile service
   delivery models

For more details, please visit: http://qudos2017.fortiss.org/

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Program Committee Chairs
 Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 Philipp Leitner, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Workshop Chairs (Steering Committee)
 Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK
 Andre van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
 Felix Willnecker, fortiss GmbH, Germany

Program Committee
 Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India
 Alberto Avritzer, Sonatype Inc., USA
 Cor-Paul Bezemer, Queen’s University, Canada
 Andreas Brunnert, RETIT, Germany
 Lubomír Bulej, Charles University Prague, CZ
 David Carrera, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
 Juergen Cito, University of Zurich, Switzerland
 Pooyan Jamshidi, Imperial College London, UK
 Christophe Joubert, Prodevelop, Spain
 Cristian Klein, Umea University, Sweden
 Klaus-Dieter Lange, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA
 Marin Litoiu, York University, Toronto, Ontario
 Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang, York University, Canada
 Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services, India
 Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
 Diego Perez-Palacin, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
 Dana Petcu, IEAT, Romania
 Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada
 Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA
 Craig Sheridan, Flexiant, UK
 Arnor Solberg, SINTEF, Norway
 Josef Spillner, ZHAW Winterthur, Switzerland
 Damian Andrew Tamburri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 Asser Tantawi, IBM Research, USA
 Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
 Ingo Weber, NICTA, Australia
 Erik Wilde, CA API Academy, USA

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not
being considered in another forum.  We solicit full papers (max
6 pages) and short tool papers (max 2 pages). All submissions must
conform to the ACM conference format. Each full paper submission will
be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.

Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qudos2017

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
workshop and present the paper. Presented papers will be published by
ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library.

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ORGANIZATION AND SUPPORT

QUDOS 2017 is organized and technically sponsored by the Research Group
(RG) and the RG DevOps Performance Working Group of the Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC RG, http://research.spec.org),
and by the consortium of the EU project DICE (http://dice-h2020.eu).

QUDOS 2017 is supported by the IFIP Working Group on Service Oriented
Systems (http://ifip-wg-sos.deib.polimi.it/), by the Associazione
Italiana per l'informatica e il Calcolo Automatico
(AICA, http://www.aicanet.it/), and by the DFG Priority Programme 1593
(SPP 1593) "Design For Future - Managed Software Evolution"
(http://www.dfg-spp1593.de/), funded by the German Research Foundation
(DFG).



-- 
Dr.-Ing. André van Hoorn
Interim Professor (Prof.-Vertr.)

University of Stuttgart, Inst. of Software Technology
Reliable Software Systems (RSS) Group
Universitätsstraße 38, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany

Room: 1.345
Phone:  +49 (0)711 685-88-252, Fax: -472
E-Mail: van.hoorn at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

http://www.iste.uni-stuttgart.de/rss/people/vanhoorn/
http://kieker-monitoring.net/, http://research.spec.org/




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