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CAST 2008 – Call for Papers

This year’s Conference for the Association for Software Testing will be held in Toronto, Ontario, July 14-16, 2008. Jerry Weinberg is our first announced keynote speaker, with others to come. The theme of the conference is “Beyond the Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Software Testing”.

CAST is a different kind of conference. It is, to a great degree, a scaled-up version of the LAWST-style workshops initiated by Cem Kaner and Brian Lawrence in 1999, of which there have been more than 100 as of this writing. One of the hallmarks of CAST is the interaction between the presenters and the other participants. Each keynote and track presentation is followed by discussion, guided by a trained facilitator. We allow plenty of time for this discussion, and we build slack into the schedule so that discussions can be extended when there’s energy for it. The focus is on, mirabile dictu, conferring.

The AST is non-profit, and for the conference, we make every effort to keep the costs low and the quality of discourse high.

We’ve announced the Call for Papers (http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/drupal/CAST2008/CFP).

I’d like to ask a couple of favours, please, dear reader. First, if you have a blog, a newsletter, an internal Web site or mailing list at work… any forum in which you can publicize the CFP, please provide a link to it and help to make sure that the worldwide testing community knows about it. Relatively few people read my blog, but lots of people—and different people—read yours. We’re looking for abstracts—proposals, not finished papers—by February 4. Please provide that link now. Please!

And apropos of that, the second favour is that I ask you—or people that you know who’d do a good job—to please submit proposals for presentations, especially in the form of actual experience reports from real test practitioners.

Finally, I’d ask that you come to the conference (don’t forget to bring a passport if you’re flying in). I’d be thrilled to host you in my home town and have some seriously good conversations about testing and a ton of other topics surrounding it.

3 replies to “CAST 2008 – Call for Papers”

  1. Details should be available within a day or two of you reading this, if they’re not there already. Last year’s fee for two days of conference plus one day of tutorial was $700; expect something within 10% of this.

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