Call for Papers - ICST 2025

ICST 2025 invites high-quality submissions in all software testing, verification, and validation areas. The conference will be held from March 31 to April 4, 2025, in Naples, Italy.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• AI-assisted software testing
• Automated test generation
• Formal verification
• Manual and social aspects of the software testing process
• Replications, empirical studies, case studies, experience reports
• Software reliability
• Static and dynamic analysis
• Test automation
• Test-driven development and Agile testing
• Testability, test design, and adequacy criteria
• Testing AI-based systems
• Testing and development processes
• Testing, debugging, and repair tools
• Testing education
• Testing in specific domains, such as mobile, web, embedded/cyber-physical systems, concurrent, distributed, cloud, GUI, context-aware, IoT, real-time systems, video games, augmented/virtual reality applications
• Testing of non-functional properties such as security, accessibility, and performance
• Theory of software testing
• Validation and user acceptance techniques

Submission Tracks

ICST 2025 invites submissions across various tracks, including:

• Special Issue
• Research Papers
• Social Events
• Industry
• Short Papers, Vision and Emerging Results
• Education
• Posters
• Journal-First Papers
• Doctoral Symposium
• Keynotes
• Technical Briefings and Tutorials
• Testing Tools and Data Showcase
• Tool Competition: Self-Driving Car Testing
• Tool Competition: UAV Testing
• Workshops

Submission Format (Research Papers)

• Full research papers must conform to the two-column IEEE conference publication format.
• Papers must not exceed 10 pages, including all text, figures, tables, and appendices.
• Two additional pages containing only references are permitted.
• Conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines. Use the letter format template and conference option.
• Submissions must comply with the IEEE Plagiarism Guidelines.
• A submission must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere while under review for ICST.
• The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.

Double-blind Reviewing

• Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the ICST 2025 Program Committee.
• A double-blind reviewing process is employed.
• Authors must make every effort to honour the double-anonymous review process. This means authors’ identities must be omitted from the submission, and references to their prior work should be in the third person.
• All artifacts, such as replication packages and tools, associated with the submission must also be anonymized.
• Any submission that does not comply with these requirements may be rejected by the PC Chairs without further review.

Submissions

• Submissions to the Research Papers Track can be made via HotCRP at https://icst2025.hotcrp.com/.
• If a paper is accepted, at least one author is required to register for ICST 2025 and present the paper.
• The conference is expected to be in-person.

Replication Material

• Submissions must supply all information needed to replicate the results.
• Authors are expected to include or point to an anonymized replication package with the necessary software, data, and instructions.
• Authors should comment on the absence of a replication package if applicable.

Important Dates

• Wed, Sep 1, 2025: Special Issue Submission Deadline
• Tue, Apr 1, 2025: Workshop Day (SAFE-ML, Mutation, CCIW, AIST)
• Mon, Mar 31, 2025: ITEQS Workshop
• Sat, Mar 8, 2025: Camera-ready submission (various tracks: IWCT, ITEQS, A-MOST, NEXTA, InSTA, SAFE-ML, A-TEST, Mutation)
• Thu, Feb 13, 2025: Camera Ready (AIST, Short Papers, Vision and Emerging Results, Testing Tools and Data Showcase, Posters)
• Fri, Feb 7, 2025: Author Registration & Early Bird Deadline Extended
• Fri, Jan 31, 2025: Posters Author Notification Deadline
• Wed, Jan 22, 2025: Education Camera-Ready Submission
• Wed, Jan 22, 2025: Research Papers Camera Ready
• Sun, Jan 19, 2025: Testing Tools and Data Showcase Author Notification
• Fri, Jan 17, 2025: Paper Submission (A-MOST, InSTA, SAFE-ML, Mutation)
• Fri, Jan 17, 2025: Submission deadline (NEXTA, IWCT, A-TEST)
• Wed, Jan 15, 2025: Posters Submission deadline
• Wed, Jan 15, 2025: Short Papers, Vision and Emerging Results Author Notification Deadline
• Fri, Jan 10, 2025: Doctoral Symposium Submission Deadline
• Fri, Jan 10, 2025: Tool Paper Camera-Ready (Self-Driving Car Testing, UAV Testing)
• Fri, Dec 6, 2024: Industry Author Notification Deadline
• Wed, Dec 4, 2024: Testing Tools and Data Showcase Full Paper Submission
• Sun, Dec 1, 2024: Journal-First Papers Submission Deadline
• Thu, Nov 28, 2024: Technical Briefings and Tutorials Full Paper Submission Deadline
• Wed, Nov 27, 2024: Short Papers, Vision and Emerging Results Full Paper Submission Deadline
• Wed, Nov 20, 2024: Short Papers, Vision and Emerging Results Abstract Submission Deadline
• Fri, Oct 25, 2024: Industry Abstract Submission Deadline
• Wed, Oct 2, 2024: Research Papers Full Paper Submission Deadline
• Wed, Sep 25, 2024: Workshops Proposal Notification Deadline
• Wed, Sep 18, 2024: Workshops Proposal Submission Deadline