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Modern software technologies pose many challenges to the development of Verification and Validation (V&V) solutions. On the one hand, software processes are evolving towards new continuous development and testing practices where software has to be developed and deployed quickly to fulfill the strict requirements of competitive customers. This requires new cost-effective V&V solutions that go side by side with software development advances. On the other hand, the ICT systems become more and more complex and new classes of systems, such as self-adaptive systems or systems of systems, are attracting a growing research interest. These systems make V&V activities more challenging, due to their highly dynamic and configurable nature. From these trends, the need arises of increasing the research activity on V&V of ICT systems, so as to guarantee high quality assurance of the complex software systems, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the software development process, while reducing the effort devoted to V&V.

The “ICT Verification and Validation” track of QUATIC'2021 represents an active forum inviting both researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their recent achievements in V&V, novel V&V techniques and tools, empirical V&V studies and V&V success stories or any other form of original research contribution.

TOPICS

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Requirement-based and model-based testing

• Approaches and tools for formal verification and model checking

• Techniques and tools for functional and non-functional assessment

• Manual testing practices and techniques

• Safety, security and privacy testing

• Software quality metrics

• Quality assurance in agile methodologies and continuous delivery

• Search-based and machine learning approaches to testing

• Software reliability and resilience

• Test automation

• Dynamic/runtime/online V&V techniques

• Fault localization

• Program analysis techniques

• Scalability and practical applicability of testing

• Theory of software analysis and testing

• Software certification

• V&V in specific domains, such as healthcare, telecommunication, cloud computing, mobile, big data, automotive, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, education, social network, etc.

• Applications, experiences, case studies on V&V

• Perspectives, challenges and issues in V&V

TRACK COMMITTEE

Chair: Francesca Lonetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy

Program Committee:

• • Oum-Ei-Kheir Aktouf, Grenoble INP - LCIS, France

  • Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy

  • Hyunsook Do, University of North Texas, USA

  • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden

  • M.J. Escalona, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

  • Francisco Gortázar, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

  • Maurizio Leotta, University of Genoa, Italy

  • Breno Miranda, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

  • Jesús Morán, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

  • Vânia de Oliveira Neves, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

  • Patrizio Pelliccione, Gran Sasso Science Institute and Chalmers | Gothenburg University, Sweden

  • Roberto Pietrantuono, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

  • Antonino Sabetta, SAP Labs, France

  • Andreas Ulrich, Siemens, Germany

  • Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK

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