Technical papers should describe innovative and significant original research on testing or analysis of computer software. Papers describing theoretical or empirical research, new techniques, and in-depth case studies of software testing and analysis methods and tools are welcome. Papers are collected in an archival, refereed conference proceedings, published by ACM, whose literature is cited and read by researchers and practitioners worldwide. All submissions must be in English.
Papers will be evaluated by the ISSTA Program Committee on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. Because there is no revision cycle, the content and presentation of submitted papers must be essentially acceptable as received.
Papers judged by the Program Committee as being especially meritorious will be invited for submission to a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Papers submitted for consideration should not have been published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. Papers violating this restriction will be rejected.
Authors of particularly meritorious papers will be invited to submit an extended paper to a journal to be named later. Also, the top technical papers at the conference will be recognized with a Best Paper Award.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format via a paper submission site located at http://continue.cs.brown.edu/servlets/issta04/submit.ss . The deadline for submitting technical papers is January 16, 2004.
We are not requiring separate submission of abstracts ahead-of-time, but when you submit your paper, the submission software will ask you to also supply your abstract in text form in a special field.
Submitted and accepted (camera-ready) papers must be prepared in ACM conference format, and they must not exceed 11 pages in camera-ready form, including figures and references. (A note to Latex users: submissions must use the Option 2 Latex templates available on the ACM page, which produce a tighter version of the SIGs style.)
NOTE: We've learned that the ACM site whose link appears just above contains an error that, on some browsers, makes it impossible to download format-related files. Thus, we provide a link here to local copies of the ACM conference format files relevant to ISSTA 2004 submissions.
Papers that do not conform to these instructions may be returned without review.