Following three successful DBTEST Workshops in 2008, 2009, and 2010, the 4th International Workshop on Testing Database Systems will take place on June 13th, 2011 in Athens, Greece, co-located with the 2011 ACM SIGMOD Conference. Goetz Graefe of HP Labs and Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo are co-chairs of this year’s DBTEST workshop, aided by a program committee comprised of both academic and industrial researchers and practitioners.
Topics expected to be covered at the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Testing techniques for database systems, data storage services, and database applications;
- Generation of synthetic data for test databases;
- Generation of stochastic test models for large test matrices;
- Techniques and algorithms for automatic program verification;
- Maximizing code coverage of database systems/applications;
- Testing the reliability and availability of database systems;
- Test-modeling of database systems/applications.
At this year’s workshop I am anticipating the publication of ideas pertaining to testing autonomic DBMS systems and performance benchmarks, some of which were discussed at a Dagstuhl workshop on Robust Query Processing, led by Goetz and Arnd Christian König, Harumi Kuno, Volker Markl, and Kai-Uwe Sattler that I attended last September.
Glenn Paulley is a Director of Engineering at Sybase iAnywhere.
