------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS QUDOS 2016 2nd International Workshop on Quality-Aware DevOps Co-located with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2016) Saarbrücken, Germany July 21, 2016 http://qudos2016.fortiss.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline April 22, 2016 Paper notification May 17, 2016 Camera-ready deadline May 24, 2016 Workshop date July 21, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. * 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. * Applications of DevOps: Case Studies in cloud computing, Big Data, and IoT; standardization and interoperability; novel application domains, etc. * Architectural styles for DevOps: Scalability and quality in microservice architectures, etc. * All other topics related to quality in DevOps and agile service delivery models For more details, please visit: http://qudos2016.fortiss.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Workshop Chairs 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 Andreas Brunnert, RETIT, Germany Abel Gomez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany Christophe Joubert, Prodevelop, Spain Klaus-Dieter Lange, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA Philipp Leitner, University of Zurich Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang, York University, Canada Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services, India Dana Petcu, IEAT, Romania Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA Matteo Rossi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Craig Sheridan, Flexiant, UK Arnor Solberg, SINTEF, Norway Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Petr Tuma, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic Ingo Weber, NICTA, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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), short tool papers (max 2 pages). All submissions must conform to the ACM conference format. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qudos2016 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION AND SUPPORT QUDOS 2016 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 2016 is supported by the IFIP Working Group on Service Oriented Systems (http://ifip-wg-sos.deib.polimi.it/) and by the DFG Priority Programme 1593 (SPP1593) "Design For Future - Managed Software Evolution" (http://www.dfg-spp1593.de/), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).