AITest 2020 Opinion
2020
The Second IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing (AITest) is held in Oxford, UK, on April 13th-16th, 2020 as part of a set of joint conferences and workshops. The goal of organizing this event is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss new scientific results and solutions to the timely and challenging problem of testing artificial intelligence models and methods and, conversely, on the use of artificial intelligence in software testing. It is a great honor to have as a distinguished keynote speaker Professor Kerstin Eder from the University of Bristol, UK, an expert in design automation and verification with particular interest in robot trustworthiness and safety. We also have an invited talk from Dr Jie Zhang from UCL, UK, on the state of the art of testing machine learning models. As Program Co-Chairs of the conference, we have solicited two types of original contributions, long (eight pages) papers and short (two pages) papers. We finally selected 17 long papers and 3 short papers to be included into these proceedings from 49 abstract submissions and 41 papers eventually submitted. Each paper has been carefully reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee, who provided informative and detailed reviews. These papers cover diverse aspects of software testing and artificial intelligence and carry strong scientific results in terms of innovation. Together with the keynote speech and invited talk they form a solid and ambitious scientific program for the conference.