DBTest 2012 invites the submission of original contributions in the area of testing and tuning database management systems, data storage services, and database applications. DBTest is also interested in war stories, practitioner’s reports, and vision papers on testing and tuning these systems.
Papers should not be longer than six pages, and should be submitted on-line through DBTest 2012’s CMT paper submission site.
Topics of Interest
Testing issues in multi-tenant databases and cloud databases
Testing techniques for data stream management systems
Testing issues in distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Hadoop)
Testing techniques for database systems, data storage services, and database applications
Generation of test artifacts (e.g., test databases, test queries)
Interactions between testing and tuning of database systems
Maximizing code coverage of database systems/applications
Testing the reliability and availability of database systems
Improving the usability of database systems
Testing and designing systems that are robust to estimation inaccuracies
Testing the efficiency of adaptive policies and components
Identifying performance bottlenecks
Robust query processing
Metrics for predictability of query and workload performance
Security and vulnerability testing
War stories and vision papers