The A-TEST workshop provides a venue for researchers and industry to exchange and discuss trending views, ideas, state of the art work in progress, and scientific results on automated test case design and evaluation.

1. Welcome at the
8th Workshop on Automated
Software Testing (A-TEST)
co-located with 12th Joint Meeting of the European Software
Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on
the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2017
4 - 5th Sept. 2017 in Paderborn

2. • The 1st , 2009: Workshop on Automated Test Case Design, Selection and
Evaluation (ATSE) in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.
• The 2nd in 2011 also with CISTI (Conference on Information Systems and
Technologies, Portugal.
• The 3th, 4th and 5th, 2012, 2013 and 2014: ATSE was at Warsaw Poland,
under FedCSIS.
• 2015: Workshop on Automated Software Testing (A-TEST), co-located with
FSE, in Bergamo, Italy. And ETSE in York. ATSE changes names to A-TEST.
• The 7th in 2016, A-TEST co-located with FSE, in Seattle.
• The 8th in 2017 here at Paderborn
History of A-TEST

3. • In total 21 contributors
• 19 reviewers
• Presenting 2 keynotes, 5 papers, 2 full hands-on sessions.
Demography 2017

4. • Opening
• 9:30. Dynamic Mutant Subsumption Analysis using LittleDarwin. Ali
Parsai and Serge Demeyer.
• Hybrid Monkey Testing: Enhancing Automated GUI Tests with Random
Test Generation. Thomas Wetzlmaier and Rudolf Ramler.
• Coffee break (10:30 – 11:00)
• Keynote: New syllabi on Quality Engineering for the IoT and on Test
Automation. Ina Schieferdecker.
• Lunch (12:30 – 13:30)
Programme Session 1 (9:00 - 12:30)
4th of september

5. • Opening
• 13:30. Hands-on: “Do it yourself” automated GUI testing with
TESTAR I, Ramón de Vries and Floren de Gier.
• Coffee break (15:00 – 15:30)
• Hands-on: “Do it yourself” automated GUI testing with TESTAR II,
Ramón de Vries and Floren de Gier.
Programme Session 2 (13:30 - 17:30)
4th of September

6. • 9:30. Keynote from Sigrid Eldh (Ericsson, Sweden) - Industrial challenges on test
automation
• Coffee break (10:30 – 11:00)
• Evaluating Quality of Security Testing of the JDK , Paddy Krishnan, Jerome Loh,
Rebecca O'Donoghue and Larissa Meinicke.
• Comparing automated visual GUI testing tools: an industrial case study, Vahid
Garousi, Wasif Afzal, Adem Çağlar, İhsan Berk Işık, Berker Baydan, Seçkin Çaylak,
Ahmet Zeki Boyraz, Burak Yolaçan and Kadir Herkiloğlu.
• Collaborative Economy for Testing Cost Reduction on Android Ecosystem, Kenyo
Abadio Crosara Faria, Eduardo Noronha De Andrade Freitas and Auri Marcelo Rizzo
Vincenzi.
• Lunch (12:30 – 13:30)
Programme Session 3 (9:00 - 12:30)
5th of September

7. • 13:30. Hands-on: “Do it yourself” Model-Based Testing session,
Machiel van der Bijl,.
• Coffee break (15:00 – 15:30)
• Hands-on “Do it yourself” Model-Based Testing session (cont.)
Programme Session 4 (13:30 - 17:30)
5th of September