Second International Workshop on Software Quality (SQ: 2011) in conjunction with ICCSA 2011


http://www.futminna.edu.ng/smisra/SQ2011


The accepted papers of SQ 2011 will be published in Lecturer Notes in Computer Science)

Following the success of SQ 2009 in ISCIS 2009 ( in Middle East Technical University North Cyprus Campus, Cyprus,) the Second International Workshop on “Software Quality SQ” (SQ 2011) will be held in conjunction with The 2011 International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2011) during June 20-23, 2011, at University of Catabria, Santander, Spain.

Submission deadline: January 31, 2011

About The Workshop and Topics

This workshop extends discussion of software quality issues in the modern software development processes. It covers all the aspects of process and product quality, quality assurance and standards, quality planning, quality control and software quality challenges. It also covers the frontier issues and trends for achieving the quality objectives. It includes quality management process, role of software metrics, predictor metrics and control metrics, role of measurement in accessing the quality and limitations.
Topics include (related to quality issues) but not limited to:

1. Software development fundamentals,
2. Extreme Programming (XP), Agile, Scrum,
3. Software requirements techniques,
4. Software testing & QA fundamentals,
5. Software testing models and approaches,
6. Software testing tools and frameworks,
7. Software test design,
8. Types of software maintenance,
9. Software maintenance process models,
10. Software maintenance standards,
11. Software maintenance tools
12. Software Reviews (SR)
13. Software Metrics (SM)
14. Software Process Assessment (SPA)
15. Software Process Improvement (SPI)
16. Software Standardization and Certification

SQ: 2011 invites you to submit your work that describes original and significant contribution in all above mentioned area of software engineering processes. The paper submitted to SQ’2011 must not be submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal. Papers selected after peer review will be included in the conference proceedings and presented orally at the conference.

Publication

All contributions will be peer reviewed and will be judged on their quality and relevance. The accepted papers for SQ 2011 will be published in Proceedings of ICCSA by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Please note that one of the author’s of the accepted paper must register for the conference and should present the paper in conference. The selected, extended and modified version of accepted paper will also be invited for the publication in a reputed International Journal.

Submission

Please submit your paper through ICCSA 2011 conference web-site.

Submission Site: http://ess.iccsa.org/

While, submitting to conference site, please select the track of your submission “Software Quality (SQ: 2011)”.

Important Dates
• Submission of papers: January 31, 2011
• Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2011
• Camera ready and registration due: April 4, 2011.
• Workshop date: 1 day between 20-23 June , 2011(Exact day will be announced later)

Program Chair

Prof Sanjay Misra
Chair, Department of Computer Engineering
School of Information and Communication Technology
Federal University of Technology, Minna Nigeria
Contact: smisra@futminna.edu.ng
Phone: +234 7030851086


Program Committee Members

Ibhrahim Akman
Murat Koyuncu Atilim University
Atilim University Turkey
Turkey
Reda Alhajj University Of Calgary Canada.
R. Kars Brouwer Thompson Rivers University CANADA
Pino Caballero University of La Laguna Canary Islands
P. Debba Senior Statistical Researcher CSIR Built Environment South Africa
Atilla Boston Atilim University Turkey
Erol Ozcelik Ailim University Turkey
Candelaria Hernandez University of La Laguna Canary Islands
Markus Holopainen University of Helsinki Finland
Andrés Iglesias University of Cantabria, Santander SPAIN
Ruchi Shukla MLN National Institute of Technology India
Wei-Ho Tsai National Taipei University of Technology Taiwan
Zeeshan Ahmed University of Wuerzburg Germany
Mikolaj Morzy Poznan University of Technology POLAND
Robert Luk The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong
Ozcan Ozturk The Pennsylvania State University USA
L.C. Rivero Universidad Nacional del Centro Argentina
A. Fuster-Sabater Institute of Applied Physics (C.S.I.C.) SPAIN
Ajaykumar Sachan Rajivee Gandhi Technical University India
Kyriakos Sgarbas University of Patras Greece
J. M. Sierra University Carlos III SPAIN
Ahmed Patel Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Malaysia
Andrea Taramelli LDEO of Columbia University, NY USA
Luciano Telesca Istituto di Metodologie per lÂ’Analisi Ambientale Italy
Sulieman Bani-Ahmad Yarmouk University Jordan