Tool DemonstrationsISSTA 2023

Call for Demos

The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2023 Tool Demonstration Track serves as a venue for publishing and presenting advances in software testing and analysis tools that aid either practice, research, or both. Submissions may describe early prototypes of tools, mature tools, and everything in between. To help disseminate tools to the community, we encourage submissions describing previously unpublished tools whose underlying techniques may have already been published.

Highlighting scientific contributions through concrete artifacts is a critical supplement to the traditional research papers published at software engineering venues, including ISSTA. A demonstration provides the opportunity to communicate how the scientific approach has been implemented or how a specific hypothesis has been assessed, including implementation and usage details, data models and representations, and APIs for tool and data access. Authors of regular research papers at ISSTA or other conferences are thus also encouraged to submit an accompanying demonstration paper. The demonstration papers must be original, however, substantial improvements or extensions to existing tools are also encouraged. Tool papers must not be concurrently under review at ISSTA or at another venue. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available under an open source license.

Authors of accepted demos will have the opportunity to present their work in the conference program.

The submission must communicate clearly the following information:

• The tool’s envisioned users
• The software testing and analysis challenge(s) the tool addresses
• How to use the tool
• Either results of conducted validation studies or the design of planned studies

To provide insight in the actual demonstration and availability, the authors are requested to include one of the following:

• A walkthrough of the actual demonstration provided as an appendix to the paper (this appendix will not be included in the page count and will not be published).
• A link to a screencast or some other accompanying multimedia presentation of the demonstration.

Evaluation:

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the demonstrations program committee. The evaluation criteria include:

• The relevance of the proposed demonstration to the ISSTA audience
• The technical soundness of the demonstrated tool
• The originality of the underlying ideas
• The quality of its presentation
• The comparison to related work

How to submit:

Submissions must conform to the ACM Conference Format. A tool demonstration submission may not exceed four pages, including all text, figures, and references. The paper submission must be in PDF. The Tool Demonstration track will be using the single-blind reviewing model, so the submitted PDFs should identify the authors. The submission site is https://issta23demo.hotcrp.com.

Deadline extension: To provide additional time for authors preparing submissions for other deadlines around the same time, we have extended the deadline for the tool demo track to Thurs 18 May. Good luck with your submissions!

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE:

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.