Call for Papers

FTW welcomes submissions on topics relating to flaky tests and non-determinism in testing generally. The workshop will provide an opportunity for academic researchers and industrial practitioners to exchange ideas about test flakiness and to find out about current research directions and industrial challenges. A major goal of FTW is to foster collaboration and exchange between academia and industry. The workshop is inclusive of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Causes of flaky tests.
• Costs and consequences of flaky tests.
• Debugging of flaky tests.
• Detection of flaky tests.
• Mitigation of flaky tests.
• Non-determinism in testing generally.
• Repair of flaky tests.

We expect a significant portion of the day to be spent on presentations and discussions of extended abstracts, but there will also be more formal short paper presentations. Please note that due to ICSE restrictions, submissions cannot exceed 8 pages. Submissions can take one of two formats:

• Extended abstract (max. 2 pages including references): New ideas, problems and challenges, view points, work in progress.
• Short paper (max. 8 pages including references): Technical research, experience reports, empirical studies.

Submission

All submissions must be made via the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ftw2025.

Each submission will be reviewed by the program committee with respect to suitability for the workshop, following a double-blind process for short papers and a single-blind process for extended abstracts. This means that the identity of short paper authors must not be revealed in their submissions. Submissions must conform to the IEEE conference proceedings template, specified in the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf options). Note that IEEE format is being used this year, whereas last year it was ACM format, hence the appearance will differ from year to year.

Important Dates

• Paper submission: November 11th 2024 AoE.
• Acceptance notification: December 1st 2024 AoE.
• Camera ready: February 5th 2025 AoE.