The 1st International Workshop on Load Testing of Large Software Systems (LT2012)

April 17, 2012.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Co-located with ICST 2012,
The 5th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

Program (PDF)


09:00 - 09:20Welcome & Introduction (Slides)
09:20 - 10:30Keynote: Protecting Large Enterprises against Security Threats
Dr. Vio Onut, Research Staff Member, Security Systems and Center for Advanced Studies, IBM
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30Regular Papers Session
  • Automated Performance Model Construction Through Event Log Analysis (Slides)
    Ahmad Mizan and Greg Franks (Carleton University)
  • Peer-to-peer Load Testing
    Jorge Augusto Meira, Eduardo Cunha De Almeida (Universidade Federal do Parana), Yves Le Traon (University of Luxembourg) and Gerson Sunye (Universite de Nantes)
  • Overcoming Web Server Benchmarking Challenges in the Multi-Core Era
    Raoufehsadat Hashemian Harandi, Diwakar Krishnamurthy (University of Calgary) and Martin Arlitt (Sustainable Ecosystems Research Group HP Labs)
  • General Discussion on the papers
12:30 - 14:00Lunch & Coffee Break
14:00 - 15:30Large Scale Testing Presentation Track
  • Challenges And Opportunities with Testing Large Systems at Ericsson
    Sigrid Eldh and Leif Jonsson (ERICSSON AB)
  • Model based load testing for performance and security (Slides)
    Cornel Barna (York University)
  • Empirical Studies of Performance Bugs and Performance Analysis Approaches for Large Scale Software System (Slides)
    Shahed Zaman (Queen’s University)
  • General Discussion on the papers
16:00 - 17:00Panel on Challenges of Large Scale Testing
  • Ahmed E. Hassan, Queen’s University
  • Marin Litoiu, York University
  • Sigrid Eldh, ERICSSON AB
  • Vio Onut, IBM
17:00 - 17:30Workshop Wrap-up