JSS SI on Test Automation 2021 : Special Issue on - Test Automation: Trends, Benefits, and Costs

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Approaches and tools for improving test automation effectiveness and ROI, for example by 
       ○ Reducing development and maintenance efforts/costs (e.g., automated generation of test code and self-healing test scripts)
       ○ Increasing test coverage and bug detection
• Costs and benefits of Test Automation in modern systems and applications, for example:
       ○ Web applications
       ○ Mobile applications (e.g., Android, iOS)
       ○ Internet of things systems
       ○ Machine learning and artificial intelligence based systems
• Costs and benefits of Test Automation at any testing level, for example:
      ○ End-to-End, acceptance, integration, functional, unit
• Measurement frameworks relevant for Test Automation
      ○ Software and process metrics
      ○ Technical debt in software testing
• Empirical studies concerning costs and benefits analysis and evaluating the cost-benefit trade-off of Test Automation (note that Surveys, (Systematic) Literature Reviews or Mapping Studies are out of the scope of the special issue and will be desk-rejected)
     ○ Experiments
     ○ Case studies
     ○ Comparative experiences and evaluations