Session details: LT'16

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Fifth International Workshop on Large-Scale Testing (LT 2016), held in Delft, the Netherlands, on March 12th, 2016. Large-scale software systems must service thousands (e.g., enterprise applications) or even millions (e.g., e-commerce websites like Amazon) of concurrent users every day. Many field problems of these systems are due to their inability to scale to field workloads, rather than featurebugs. In addition to conventional functional testing (e.g., unit and integration testing), these systems must be tested with large volumes of concurrent requests (called the load) to ensure the quality of these systems. Large-scale testing includes all different objectives and strategies of testing large-scale software systems using load. Examples of large-scale testing include live upgrade testing, load testing, high availability testing, operational profile testing, performance testing, reliability testing, stability testing and stress testing. LT 2016 is a one-day workshop. The workshop participants consist of a mixture of academic and industrial researchers. A big emphasis of this workshop is to make the workshop interactive with many discussion slots assigned throughout the schedule. The workshop has two keynote talks: "Automated Analysis of Load Test Results of Systems with Equilibrium or Transient Behaviour" by Dr. André Bondi and "Performance Testing in Software Development: Getting the Developers on Board" by Professor Lubomír Bulej from Charles University. In addition, the workshop also includes presentations from technical papers and industrial talks. Finally, there is a discussion panel, which brings together industrial practitioners and academic researchers to discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with large-scale testing. We hope you enjoy the technical and social program. If you are not able to attend our workshop, we hope you will find the papers and talks in this workshop stimulating. This workshop would not happen without the efforts of the program committee members who helped with timely and constructive reviews. In addition, we want to extend our gratitude to each author and presenter who submitted their work to the LT 2016 workshop.