Call for Papers

FTW welcomes submissions on topics relating to flaky tests. 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):

• Costs and consequences of flaky tests.
• Causes of flaky tests.
• Detection of flaky tests.
• Mitigation of flaky tests.
• 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 submitted via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftw24.

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. All authors should use the official “ACM Primary Article Template”, as can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template page. LaTeX users should use the sigconf option as well as review to produce line numbers. Authors of short papers must also use anonymous to omit author names. For example, a short paper author should include the following line at the beginning of the document:

\documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}

Important Dates

• Paper submission: December 7th 2023 AoE.
• Acceptance notification: January 11th 2024 AoE.
• Camera ready: January 25th 2024 AoE.