Society has become more dependent on software-intensive systems, not only in safety-critical areas (defense, transportation, nuclear power generation, space exploration, etc.), but also in areas such as finance and medical information management. With the recent growth of more software applications in cloud computing and big data, system failure or loss of identity privacy, data fidelity, or data integrity becomes even more critical and can have causal catastrophic outcomes. A forum to consolidate the community of interested researchers and practitioners is desired to more frequently discuss innovative approaches to software quality assurance.

Software's complexity has outpaced previous methods of quality assurance because of new gateways to attacks and data loss. We seek thought-provoking manuscripts that promote sound techniques to ensure the safe, correct, and secure operation of software-intensive systems.

This special section emphasizes both current and emerging practices in software quality assurance. The guest editors welcome reviews and case studies on state-of-art research, state-of-practice experience, and even 'seat-of-the-pants' novel ideas if well-defined and practical.

Topics

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Issues and challenges related to software quality assurance (monitoring, auditing, verification, validation, testing, security evaluation, intrusion prevention, data protection, vulnerability discovery, penetration analysis, malware behavior analysis, maintenance, disaster recovery, regulatory and standards compliance, etc.)
Application and evaluation of assurance techniques against large, complex software systems (reliability-, security-, safety- or mission-critical systems, embedded systems, open source applications, etc.)
Application and evaluation of software assurance techniques in cloud computing and big data.
Reports on successful experiences or limitations of techniques for software quality assurance
Metrics and measurements for software quality assurance
Tool support for software quality assurance
Empirical evaluations or industrial case studies that guide future research directions

Submission

We welcome high quality submissions that are original work, not published or currently submitted elsewhere. We also encourage extensions to conference papers, unless prohibited by copyright, if there is at least 30% difference in the technical content. Authors should follow the information posted at http://rs.ieee.org/images/files/Publications/Trans_Reliability/information_readers_and_authors.pdf to prepare and submit their manuscripts. To ensure a proper submission, log in to the manuscript central for the IEEE Transactions on Reliability (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tr-ieee) and select "Software Quality Assurance Special Section" as the manuscript type.

Important Dates

September 1, 2014

December 1, 2014

December 15, 2014

March 15, 2015

June 15, 2015

July 1, 2015

Paper submission deadline

All reviews back

First round notification

Revised submission deadline

All reviews back

Final notification

Guest Co-Editors

Dr. Jeffrey Voas

Computer Security Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Professor W. Eric Wong

Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas

For any inquiries about this special section, please contact Professor W. Eric Wong: ewong@utdallas.edu.

Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Reliability Special Section onSoftware Quality Assurance: Research & Practice

Topics

Submission

Important Dates

Guest Co-Editors

Call for Papers
IEEE Transactions on Reliability
Special Section on
Software Quality Assurance: Research & Practice