Best Paper Award

At least one award will be presented by QRS 2017. Authors of each best paper will receive a certificate signed by the Program Chairs of QRS 2017.

Two iPads, provided by Boxtrap spol. s r.o. and Eaton European Innovation Center in Roztoky, Czech Republic, will be given to authors of best papers.

In addition, authors of these papers are invited to submit an extended version of their QRS papers with sufficient enhancement to a special section of IEEE Transactions on Reliability for possible publication.

Best Papers for QRS 2017

• Which Factor Impacts GUI Traversal-Based Test Case Generation Technique Most?
  Bo Jiang, Yaoyue Zhang, W.K. Chan, and Zhenyu Zhang


• Using Off-the-Shelf Exception Support Components in C++ Verification
  Vladimír Štill, Petr Ročkai, and Jiří Barnat


• Investigating the Significance of Bellwether Effect to Improve Software Effort Estimation
  Solomon Mensah, Jacky Keung, Stephen G. MacDonell , Michael F. Bosu, and Kwabena E. Bennin

Best Papers for QRS 2016

• DFL: Dual-service Fault Localization
  C. M. Tang, Jacky Keung, Y. T. Yu, and W. K. Chan


• Detecting and Preventing Program Inconsistencies Under Database Schema Evolution
  Loup Meurice, Csaba Nagy, and Anthony Cleve


• Leveraging Static Analysis Tools for Improving Usability of Memory Error Sanitization Compilers
  Rigel Gjomemo, Phu H. Phung, Edmund Ballou, Kedar Namjoshi, V.N. Venkatakrishnan, and Lenore Zuck