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From: gmurphy@cs.washington.edu (Gail Murphy)
Subject: CFP: Testing Smalltalk Applications (OOPSLA '95 Workshop)
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		    Testing Smalltalk Applications

			 OOPSLA '95 Workshop
		       Monday, October 16, 1995
			      (Full-day)

		   ***** Call for Submissions *****

Overview: 
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  Many organizations are jumping on the Smalltalk bandwagon, hoping to
reap the many benefits ascribed to OOT and Smalltalk in particular.
Those who have already worked hard to bring a product written in
Smalltalk to successful release have been forced to come up with their
own solutions for how to assure the quality of their product. 

  At a recent Smalltalk-centered conference, the total absence of
presentations or workshops on the theme of testing Smalltalk
applications was of concern to attendees. The scarcity of literature
(particularly how-to information) and tools to support testing is
disturbing, especially to organizations beginning a Smalltalk project.

Goals and focus: 
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  This workshop will explore the particular challenges involved in
testing Smalltalk applications, successes that organizations have
achieved in this area, problems that they have encountered, and areas
the participants feel require better solutions. Participants will
describe testing approaches, demonstrate tools or frameworks developed
to support testing, and discuss lessons learned from each other's
successes and failures.

  Our goals for organizing the workshop are to: (1) Learn about the
current state of the art in testing Smalltalk applications. (2) Share
what we've done on our projects (process, tools, classes). We hope the
workshop is of immediate value to the participants.

Requirements for attendance:
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  Prospective participants must submit a short (700-800 words) position
paper in ASCII text format by August 15, 1995, preferably by electronic
mail. Papers are solicited on these themes:  tools, testing strategies,
management buy-in, GUI testing, multi-platform testing, how you handle
third-party or reused classes/frameworks with respect to testing,
fulfilling testing requirements of internal and external standards
bodies and integrating those requirements into the OO development
process, and other topics listed in the Web page for this workshop.
Your paper must include the contact name, phone, FAX (if available),
and e-mail address (required).  Accepted participants will be notified
by September 1, 1995.

Important dates:
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  August  15, 1995     Deadline for position paper submission
  Sepember 1, 1995     Notification of acceptance
  October 16, 1995     Workshop

Organizers: 
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  Barbara Yates, Bytesmiths
  Jan Steinman,  Bytesmiths
  Gail Murphy,   University of Washington
  Gray Huggins,  Texas Instruments
  Mark Murphy,   Independent Consultant

Submissions: 
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  Barbara Yates, OOPSLA Workshop, 2002 Parkside Court, West
  Linn, Oregon 97068-2767 USA
  Telephone: +1 503/657-7703 (voice mail only)
  Fax: only by prior arrangement
  Email: barbara.bytesmiths@acm.org

For more information:
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  E-mail: barbara.bytesmiths@acm.org
  URL:    http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gmurphy/testSTApp.html

