Best Paper Award

At least one award will be presented by QRS 2018. Authors of each best paper will receive a certificate signed by the Program Chairs of QRS 2018.

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