Software projects accumulate large sets of test cases, encoding valuable expertknowledge about the software under test to the extent of many person years.Over time the reliability of the tests decreases, and they become difficult tounderstand and maintain. Extra effort is required for repairing broken testsand for adapting test suites and models to evolving software systems.

The International Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of SoftwareTests (VST) is a unique event bringing together academics, industrialresearchers, and practitioners for exchanging experiences, solutions and newideas in applying methods, techniques and tools from software analysis,evolution and re-engineering to advance the state of the art in testdevelopment and maintenance.

List of Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Analysis and validation of test code, test data, and test models
• Test execution monitoring, results analysis, and visualization
• Fault detection and localization
• Co-evolution of tests and production code
• Test case maintenance and automated repair
• Clone detection for test code and data
• Test generation and amplification
• Test prioritization, minimization and simplification
• Application of generative AI and LLMs in testing
• Combinations of the topics above

Submission Guidelines

We encourage submission of papers on the topics mentioned above:

• Full papers (8 pages)
• Position papers and tool demonstration papers (2-4 pages)

Papers must conform to the IEEE proceedings paper format guidelines and needto be prepared for a full double-blind review process. If the paper is accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop and present the paper.

Submission is done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vst2025

Program Chairs

• Martin Pinzger, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• Christian Macho, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• Rudolf Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria