The International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation — ICST
ICST is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Software Engineering.
These pages provide general information on the conference and how it is governed by the steering committee.
ICST Steering Committee
(Elected for three year terms by attendees at an open meeting during each conference)Name | Location | Elected | Term Expires |
Gregory Gay (Co-Chair) | Sweden | 2023 | 2026 |
Sebastiano Panichella (Co-Chair) | Switzerland | 2025 | 2028 |
Aldeida Aleti | Australia | 2025 | 2028 |
Tim Henderson | USA | 2025 | 2028 |
Shiva Nejati | Canada | 2024 | 2027 |
Hadi Hemmati | Canada | 2024 | 2027 |
Sahar Tahvili | Sweden | 2024 | 2027 |
Neil Walkinshaw | UK | 2024 | 2027 |
Anthony Ventresque | Ireland | 2023 | 2026 |
Jie Zhang | UK | 2023 | 2026 |
Past ICST Steering Committee Members
Name | Location | Term |
Shaukat Ali | Norway | 2021-2025 (Chair 2024-2025) |
Annibale Panichella | Netherlands | 2021-2025 |
Andreas Zeller | Germany | 2021-2025 |
Rui Maranhao Abreu | Portugal | 2019-2024 |
John Micco | USA | 2019-2024 |
Ana Paiva | Portugal | 2019-2024 |
Atif Memon | USA | 2010-2013, 2017-2023 |
Shin Yoo | Korea | 2017-2023 (Chair 2018-2023) |
Mike Papadakis | Luxembourg | 2019-2022 |
Robert Feldt | Sweden | 2014-2017, 2018-2021 |
Andy Podgurski | USA | 2018-2021 |
Tanya Vos | Netherlands | 2018-2021 |
Myra Cohen | USA | 2014-2020 |
Lionel Briand | Luxembourg | 2007-2014, 2016-2019 (Chair 2013-2014) |
Mark Grechanik | USA | 2016-2019 |
John Penix | USA | 2013-2019 |
Gordon Fraser | UK | 2012-2018 (Chair 2014-2018) |
Darko Marinov | USA | 2015-2018 |
Franz Wotawa | Austria | 2015-2018 |
Jeff Offutt | USA | 2007-2011, 2014-2017 (Chair, 2007-2011) |
Yves Le Traon | France | 2007-2010, 2013-2016 |
Alex Orso | USA | 2013-2016 |
Antonia Bertolino | Italy | 2012-2015 |
Yvan Labiche | Canada | 2012-2015 |
Benoit Baudry | France | 2007-2014 (Chair 2011-2013) |
Ina Schieferdecker | Germany | 2011-2014 |
Ana Cavalli | France | 2010-2013 |
Gregg Rothermel | USA | 2010-2013 |
Anneliese Andrews | USA | 2007-2012 |
Rob Hierons | UK | 2007-2012 |
Per Runeson | Sweden | 2009-2012 |
Mark Harman | UK | 2007-2010 |
Clay Williams | USA | 2007-2010 |
Aditya Mathur | USA | 2007-2009 |
Proposals for ICST Conferences
We are committed to planning conference locations at least two years in advance.
If you are interested in hosting a conference, please contact any member of the Steering Committee.
We would like to begin a discussion as early as possible
so that we can include your proposal into our long-term plans
and so that future organizers can be included in previous conferences.
About ICST
The ICST conference offers an open forum for software testing,
verification and validation research and its transfer to practice.
Among other things, it attempts to stimulate scientific research on
model-based software testing,
empirical studies of testing techniques, and
the technology transfer of research results to software development practices.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Software testing theory and practice
- Model-based testing
- Domain specific testing including, but not limited to, security testing, web services testing, database testing, and OO software testing
- Verification & Validation
- Quality Assurance
- Model checking
- Empirical studies
- Metrics
- Inspections
- Tools
- Testing education
- Testing in multidisciplinary applications
- Embedded software
- Technology transfer
- Model-Driven Engineering
- Novel approaches to software reliability assessment