CALL FOR PAPERS

HotSWUp 2008: First International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software
Upgrades

(co-located with OOPSLA 2008)
Nashville, Tennessee
October 19--23, 2008

http://www.hotswup.org

OBJECTIVES

The goal of HotSWUp is to identify cutting-edge research ideas for
implementing software upgrades. Actively-used software is upgraded
regularly to incorporate bug fixes and security patches or to keep up
with the evolving requirements. Whether upgrades are applied offline
or online, they significantly impact the software's performance and
reliability. Recent studies and a large body of anecdotal evidence
suggest that, in practice, upgrades are failure-prone, tedious, and
expensive.