This workshop brings to light the latest challenges and advances in research topics associated with program debugging, with a special emphasis on methodology, techniques, and environment. Also accepted are experience reports that describe industrial and/or empirical studies related to these three aspects. IWPD aims to provide a forum and serve as a platform for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, present new advancements, and identify further challenges in the context of program debugging.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Automation of program debugging
Challenges and emerging techniques in program debugging for large scale real-life applications
Static and dynamic analyses for software fault localization and bug-fixing
Apply debugging to multi-core and multi-threaded programs
Impacts of program languages and environments on debugging
and Testing
Impact of program debugging and test case prioritization on regression testing
Software risk analysis and fault proneness prediction
Software testing, verification, and validation for debugging
Online monitoring and record/replay for program debugging
Reducing the cost of program debugging
Empirical studies and benchmarking
Experience reports and industrial best practices
Tool support
Transitioning from research to practice
Integrating debugging with other software development activities
Approaches to teaching program debugging
Workshop Proceedings
Accepted papers
will be published as part of the ISSRE 2012 Supplemental Proceedings by IEEE
Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS).
They will also be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore and
to all of the A&I (abstracting and indexing) partners (such as the EI Compendex).
Best Paper Award
At least one award will be presented.
Authors will receive a certificate signed by the President of the IEEE Reliability Society
and the Organizers of IWPD 2012.
Special Issue of Journal of Systems and Software
Authors of selected papers from IWPD 2012 will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS).
Important Dates
| September 14, 2012 | Submission deadline |
| October 4, 2012 (extended) | Notification of authors |
| October 10, 2012 | Camera-ready |
Information for authors of regular papers
Submit original papers
(not published or submitted elsewhere) with a maximum of six pages. Include the title of the paper,
the name and affiliation of each author, a 150-word abstract, and up to 6 keywords. Both research papers
and industry experience reports are welcome.
All the submissions must be written in English and
follow the IEEE conference proceedings format.
Each submission will be reviewed by three PC members.
Paper selection is based on the originality, technical contribution, presentation, and relevance to IWPD.
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Information for panelists
The IWPD workshop has a special
panel with a focus on Program Debugging: Transitioning from Research to Practice.
Qualified panelists are solicited to report their experience of applying research methodologies and techniques
to debug large complicated real-life software systems and the challenges which they had to overcome.
Interested parties should send a position statement of up to two pages to the Program Chairs:
Dr. Hira Agrawal in Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies, USA (Email: hira@research.telcordia.com) or
Professor Zhenyu Chen, Nanjing University, China (Email: zychen@software.nju.edu.cn).
Steering Committee
| W. Eric Wong (chair) | University of Texas at Dallas | USA |
| T.H. Tse (chair) | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| James Jones | University of California, Irvine | USA |
| Franz Wotawa | Graz University of Technology | Austria |
| W. K. Chan | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| Hira Agrawal | Telcordia Technologies | USA |
Program Committee Chairs
| Hira Agrawal | Telcordia Technologies | USA |
| Zhenyu Chen | Nanjing University | China |
Program Committee (Tentative)
| Rui Abreu | University of Porto | Portugal |
| Mikhail Auguston | Naval Postgraduate School | USA |
| Fevzi Belli | University of Paderborn | Germany |
| Christof Budnik | Siemens Corporate Research | USA |
| T Y Chen | Swinburne University of Technology | Australia |
| Byoungju Choi | Ewha Womans University | Korea |
| Peter Fritzson | Linkopings Universitetm | Sweden |
| Arjan van Gemund | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| Gregory Kapfhammer | Allegheny College | USA |
| Jenny Li | Avaya Labs Research | USA |
| Wolfgang Mayer | University of South Australia | Australia |
| Bruce McMillin | Missouri University of Science and Technology | China |
| Michiel Ronsse | University of Gent | Belgium |
| Raul Santelices | University of Notre Dame | USA |
| Markus Stumptner | University of South Australia | Australia |
| Qianxiang Wang | Peking University | China |
| Dianxiang Xu | Dakota State University | USA |
| Zhenyu Zhang | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China |
| Xiangyu Zhang | Purdue University | USA |
Web Master
| Ruizhi Gao | University of Texas at Dallas | USA |
Workshop Venue
IWPD 2012 will be held in conjunction with ISSRE 2012 at the Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel, Richardson, Texas 75082. Please visit the ISSRE website for hotel reservation.
For any inquiry, please contact Professor Zhenyu Chen, Program co-Chair or Professor W. Eric Wong, co-Chair, Steering Committee.
Previous IWPD
IWPD 2011 - Munich, Germany (in conjunction with COMPSAC 2011)
IWPD 2010 - Zhangjiajie, China (in conjunction with QSIC 2010)