[fg-arc] CfP: Joint CSE/QUDOS 2020 Workshop @ ECSA 2020

[Andre van Hoorn]

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                                 CALL FOR PAPERS

                        Joint CSE/QUDOS Workshop 2020
             5th Workshop on Continuous Software Engineering
                                      and
           6th International Workshop on Quality-Aware DevOps

                             Co-located with the
    14th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2020)

                                L'Aquila, Italy
                             September 14-18, 2020
                         (exact day to be announced)

   https://cse2020.swc-rwth.de/ - http://2020.qudos-workshop.org/
                     https://twitter.com/qudos_workshop

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline                  June 19, 2020 (AoE)
Paper notification                    Jul 13, 2020
Camera-ready deadline                 Jul 22, 2020
Workshop date                      Sep 14-18, 2020 (t.b.a.)

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DON'T STOP ARCHITECTING!

Please check the message from the ECSA 2020 General Chair on COVID-19:
https://ecsa2020.disim.univaq.it/attending/message-from-general-chair

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SCOPE AND TOPICS

DevOps extends the agile development principles to include the full
stack of software services, from design to execution, enabling and
promoting collaboration of operations, quality assurance, and
development engineers throughout the entire service lifecycle.
Ultimately, DevOps is a process that enables faster releases of a better
product to the end user. DevOps encompasses a set of values, principles,
methods, practices, and tools, to accelerate software delivery to the
customer by means of infrastructure as code, continuous integration and
deployment, automated testing and monitoring, or new architectural
styles such as microservices. In the end all common software engineering
activities, organizational forms and processes have to be questioned,
adapted and extended to ensure continuous and unobstructed software
development, this is the aim of continuous software engineering
(CSE)research. Current software engineering research mainly deals with
the development aspects of DevOps and CSE, focusing on development
methods, practices, and tools, leaving the quality assurance aspects of
DevOps behind.

Even though development practices such as testing (at all levels) are
instrumental in producing quality software, they mostly deal with the
functional correctness, while quality assurance deals with a more
broadly defined concept of quality, of which functional correctness is
just one dimension. However, DevOps needs methods and tools that enable
systematic assessment, prediction, and management of software quality in
other dimensions as well, including performance, reliability, safety,
survivability, or cost ofownership.

The Joint CSE/QUDOS workshop provides a forum for experts from academia
and industry to present and discuss novel quality-aware methods,
practices and tools for DevOps.  In extension to the workshop aims to
present and discuss innovative solutions, ideas and experiences in the
area of continuity along the entire software engineering lifecycle
hence, Continuous Software Engineering.

For the second time, CSE and QUDOS join forces to foster cross-
fertilization and bootstrap an even bigger, stronger community around
the urgently emerging topics they are both addressing from different
angles. Especially industry practitioners are invited to join this
community and present challenges, solutions and lessons learned from
real and complex projects.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 * Foundations: DevOps Engineering & Quality Assurance Methodologies;
   integration with lifecycle management; automated tool chains;
   patterns & smells;
 * Architecture: Scalability and capacity planning; scale-out
   architectures; cloud-native application design; microservice-based
   architectures; model-driven architectures; architecture evolution and
   erosion
 * Development and Tooling: Software models and requirements in early
   software development phases; automatic functional and non-functional
   testing; languages, annotations and profiles for quality assurance;
   analysis, verification and prediction; optimization-based
   architecture design; Infrastructure-as-Code
 * Operation and Maintenance: Application performance monitoring;
   model-driven performance measurement and benchmarking; feedback-based
   quality assurance; capacity planning and forecasting; performance
   anti-pattern detection; traceability and versioning; trace and log
   analysis; software regression and testing; security and privacy;
   software health and self-healing; containerization and immutable
   infrastructure
 * Continuous X: Continuous delivery and Continuous experimentation;
   deployment pipelines, canary releases and partial rollouts; A/B
   testing; performance and scalability testing via shadow launches
 * Applications and Experiences: Case Studies in cloud computing, Big
   Data, and IoT/Edge Computing; standardization and interoperability;
   novel application domains, etc.
 * All other topics related to DevOps and agile service delivery models

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
CSE/QUDOS 2020 will be organized by the Program Committee Chairs and the
Steering Committees of the CSE and QUDOS workshops series.

Program Committee Chairs
 Robert Chatley, Imperial College London, UK
 Katja Kevic, Microsoft, UK

Program Committee
 Bram Adams, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
 Maurício Aniche, TU Delft, Netherlands
 Cor-Paul Bezemer, University of Alberta, Canada
 Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology
 Daniel Bryant, DataWire / InfoQ, UK
 Jürgen Cito, TU Vienna, Austria
 Thomas Kurpick, Trusted Shops GmbH
 Shane McIntosh, McGill U, Canada
 Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research, UK
 Adrian Mouat, Container Solutions, UK
 Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
 Kayla Shapiro, Facebook, UK
 Emma Söderberg, Lund University
 Damian Tamburri, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
 Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
 Benji Weber, Snyk, UK
 Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria

CSE Steering Committee
 Stephan Krusche, TU München, Germany
 Horst Lichter, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
 Dirk Riehle, FAU Nürnberg, Germany
 Andreas Steffens, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

QUDOS Steering Committee
 Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK
 Andre van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
 Philipp Leitner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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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. 12
pages), short papers (max. 5 pages), and industry abstracts (max. 2
pages). All submissions must conform to the Springer Proceedings format
(LNCS/CCIS).

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=csequdos2020

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
workshop and present the paper. Presented papers will be published by
Springer in the ECSA 2020 workshop proceedings.

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ORGANIZATION AND SUPPORT

The Joint CSE/QUDOS Workshop 2020 is organized and technically sponsored
by the Research Group (RG) and the DevOps Performance Working Group of
the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC RG,
http://research.spec.org), and by the consortium of the EU project RADON
(http://radon-h2020.eu/).

The workshop is also supported by
 IFIP Working Group on Service Oriented Systems
(http://ifip-wg-sos.deib.polimi.it/)
 GI Working Group Microservices and DevOps (https://ak-msdo.gi.de/)

-- 
Dr.-Ing. André van Hoorn

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

Room: 1.332
Phone:  +49 (0)711 685-88-252, Fax: -472
E-Mail: van.hoorn at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

https://www.iste.uni-stuttgart.de/institute/team/van-Hoorn/
http://kieker-monitoring.net/, http://research.spec.org/