Transcript ICST2015 in Japan

Proposal for ICST 2017 Tokyo
ICST 2017 Tokyo Bid Team
General and program Chairs
• General chairs
• Dr. Tetsuro Katayama, University of Miyazaki, Japan
• Dr. Atif Memon, University of Maryland, USA
• Program chairs
• Dr. Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, Japan
• A PC member of ICST
• Dr. Ina Schieferdecker, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Other organizers
• Local arrangement chair
• Mr. Keizo Tatsumi, Fujitsu Ltd., Japan
• Marketing chair
• Ms. Satomi Yoshizawa, NEC, Japan
• Financial chair
• Dr. Kouichi Akiyama, Fuji Xerox, Japan
• Industry track chairs
• Dr. Juichi Takahashi, Sony, Japan
• Co-chair is required
Supporting organization
• ASTER, the Association of Software Test Engineering,
is the supporting organization for this proposal
• ASTER is a non profit organization which consists of volunteers
from academia and industry in Japan
• The purpose of ASTER is to promote and research
practical software testing technologies in Japan
• President: Dr. Yasuharu Nishi (Univ. of Electro-communication, Tokyo)
• ASTER will be the main sponsor for ICST 2017 Tokyo
• ASTER makes a big profit from ISTQB certification scheme in Japan
and will contribute advances of software testing technologies
by supporting ICST 2017 Tokyo
• ASTER will support conference operation for ICST
• ASTER has much experience of holding a annual local conference,
JaSST: Japan Symposium on Software Testing
• JaSST’s unique attendance is over 500 people
Location
• We propose Tokyo in Japan
as ICST 2017 location.
• Asia is the most suitable region for ICST 2017
• ICSTs have been held only in North America and Europe
although locations of ICST should be balanced among three regions,
Americas, Europe and Asia
• Japan is located midway between North America and Europe
• Japan is the most advanced country in IT industry in Asia
• Including not only software companies in enterprise domain
but high quality embedded systems companies
such as Toyota and Sony
• Tokyo is the industrial, economical capital in Japan
• Many Japanese attendance and speakers will be
expected because a lot of Japanese companies
locates their headquarter in Tokyo
• Tokyo Olympic will be held in 2020!
• Tokyo is very easy to access
• Tokyo has two international airports
connected directly to many cities
in Americas, Europe and other Asian countries
Venue: Meguro Gajoen
• MG is one of the major conference venue in Tokyo
• MG is suitable for ICST which consists of:
• One big main room for 600 attendance
for keynote
• can be divided into two 300-attendance rooms
• Nine medium rooms
for 120-attendance rooms
for parallel sessions and workshops
• Very accessible as the big main room and the medium four rooms are
abutted in the same floor, and the five rest rooms are just upstairs
• Modern facilities including one large screen/projector
and plural microphones for each room and Wifi for all venue
• MG is much accessible near the center of Tokyo
• MG is just five minutes walk from Meguro, the nearest railway station
• Meguro is a station of Tokyo city main loop line and two subways
• MG has a gorgeous accommodation in the same building and
there are a lot of budget hotels near Meguro and the next stations
Venue: Meguro Gajoen
• MG can provide ICST guests delightful experiences
• MG can serve global guests of ICST with much hospitality:
• Guests can enjoy lunch, banquet and welcome reception
in a divided main rooms both in buffet style and in four-course style
• Special foods such as vegetarian haral are of course available
• MG has exotic and attractive Japanese interior such as:
• Several traditional Japanese arts and ornaments
along the passage from the entrance to the conference rooms
• Artificial very small creek and tiny bridge!
• Tiny Japanese art museum “Hyakudan Kaidan” in the same building
• English-guided tours could be available
depending on future museum schedule
• http://www.megurogajoen.co.jp/english/
Travel to Tokyo
• Tokyo is very easy to access
• Tokyo has two international airports connected directly
to many cities in Americas, Europe and other Asia countries
• Tokyo is one of the most attractive cities in the world
• Both of attendances and accompanied persons
can significantly enjoy because Tokyo has:
• A lot of attractive place such as museums, Japanese gardens,
exotic shrines/temples amusement parks
• Delicious local specialties such as Sushi, Kobe beef and Sake wines
• Fast, accurate accessible train/subway network in Tokyo inside and
from/to other cities such as Kyoto, Mt. Fuji and several hot spas
• Beautiful cherries in full bloom
in late March and early April
• Opportunities you can try Japanese cultures
such as Kimono dressing
• Safe, kind and peaceful people 
Corporate involvement
• Many attendance and speakers are expected
from industry for ICST
• Tokyo has potential local attendance for ICST because
JaSST, the annual Tokyo local conference on software testing,
has over 500 unique attendances from industry
• There are over 8,000 ISTQB certified engineers in Japan
• ASTER, the supporting organization, consists of
many experts on software testing from industry
such as NEC, Fujitsu, Sony, Hitachi, Xerox, IBM and HP
• We are planning an “Asian Industry Session” to
encourage paper submissions on industrial experiences
from Japan and IT emerging Asian countries such as
• China, Korea, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines
Budget information
• Sound (profitable if possible) finance will be expected:
• Registration fee will be almost the same level as prior ICSTs
in North America and Europe
• Young volunteers for conference operation will be expected
from universities and companies
• ASTER, the supporting organization, is the main sponsor
which will contribute tens of thousands of US$
• Several local companies will be expected to contribute
from over ten thousand US$ to thousands of US$
• We will prepare sponsorship program such as Platinum, Gold, Silver
Budget information
• We will be kind for students,
young academia and people from emerging countries
• We will prepare student fee around $200
• We will consider Asian participant fee around $200-400
and one-day registration fee
• Prices in Tokyo are the same level as major cities in
North America and Europe where ICSTs were held
• Prices of hotels and foods vary proportional to quality
• Hotels: $80-150 from cheap to moderate as well as $400 for gorgeous
• Foods: $4-8 from fast foods to moderate lunch
• Water are free and good to drink
• Conference hotel rate will be arranged
Program Information
• Three conference days
• Morning keynotes everyday
• One from Japan, One from North America and One from Europe
• Japanese keynote will be from industry
• 4 parallel tracks
• Two for research sessions and one for industry sessions
• One for tool sessions and Asian industry sessions
• Afternoon panels everyday
• One for collaboration between academia and industry
• One for typical research topics (e.g. MBT, Automation, CT)
• One for emerging technologies and future of software testing
• Two workshop days
• 14 workshops maximum can be held
• 10 for regular workshops such as TAIC PART, A-MOST…
• One for Ph.D symposium
• 2-3 for new workshops on emerging topics or typical domains
• Program for accompanied persons will be planned
Conference dates (tentative):
• Conference and workshop dates
• 13th Mar, 2017 (Mon):Workshops and Ph.D symposium
• 14th – 16th Mar, 2017 (Tue – Thu) : Conference
• 17th Mar, 2017 (Fri) : Workshops
• Hospitality dates
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14th Mar, 2017 (Tue): Welcome reception (bar and snack)
15th Mar, 2017 (Wed): Banquet (dinner with cultural event)
15th Mar, 2017 (Wed): City tour for accompanied persons
13th (Mon) or 17th (Fri) Mar, 2017: Companies visits (tentative)
Japan hopes to contribute ICST
• Japan hopes and starts to contribute ICST
• In ICST 2013 and 2014, six Japanese submissions are
each accepted for a main conference and WSs
• Good balance: Several from academia and several from industry
• Japanese software testing R&D activities
and community are much active
• Several local annual conferences are active
• Attendance of the biggest one are over 500 people
• Attendance of other 7 confs are around 50-100 people
• ASTER held an international workshop on Test Architecture
in conjunction with ISSRE 2011
• ISTQB Certified software testing engineers are getting more
• Over 15,000 people took ISTQB exams in Japan
• Japanese software testing engineers and researchers
are eager to study globally advanced technologies from ICST
and to publish their activities globally in ICST
The ICST 2017 Tokyo Bid Team
• Dr. Tetsuro Katayama
• University of Miyazaki, Japan
• <[email protected]>
• Dr. Hironori Washizaki
• Waseda University, Japan
• <[email protected]>
• Mr. Keizo Tatsumi
• Fujitsu Ltd., Japan
• <[email protected]>
• Ms. Satomi Yoshizawa
• NEC Corporation
• <[email protected]>
• Dr. Yasuharu Nishi
• University of Electro-Communications, Japan
• <[email protected]>
Thank you
for considering
our eager proposal
for ICST 2017 Tokyo