ANRF-ISEA-IBITF Sponsored 17th National Workshop on

RECENT TRENDS IN SOFTWARE TESTING

(RTST - 2024)

(Theme: Financial Security)

27th November - 1st December 2024
Organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal
Register

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The Workshop on Recent Trends in Software Testing (RTST) will provide a forum for discussions on theoretical and practical aspects of advanced software testing, exchanging research ideas and challenges, exploring possible solutions and future directions. This is the 17th workshop of the series. The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry.

The workshop mainly includes invited lectures on recent advances in software testing both from industry and academia. The invited lectures will mainly cover the following areas: Testing of Smart Contract, MC/DC testing, Concolic testing, model-based testing, objectoriented testing strategies, regression testing, test case optimization and prioritization.

INVITED TALKS

The invited talks will be delivered by experts from IITs, NITs, IIITs, and other reputed institutes. Also, experts will be from industries such as TCS and CDAC.

CONTENTS OF THE WORKSHOP

Security Testing

Security Application of LLM in testing

Security in Blockchain

Testing of Smart Contract

Bounded Model Checking for Smart Contract

Fuzzing for Smart Contract

Smart Contract repair

Secure Program analysis

Smart Contract Slicing

Secure AI testing

Security Testing in agile environment

Secure Agile software development

Secure Software ecosystems

Security Testing of EWB based applications

Security Testing of IOT based applications

Security Testing in Big data analytics

National Institute of Technology Warangal

National Institute of Technology (Formerly, Regional Engineering College (REC)), Warangal was the first to be established (in 1959) among the chain of 15 RECs in the country, setup as joint venture of the Government of India and the state Government. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone for this institute on October 10, 1959. Over the years, the college has established itself as a premier institution imparting technical education of a very high standard leading to the B. Tech. degrees in eight branches of engineering, M. Tech. degrees in twenty-five specializations, P. G. degrees in eight specializations and Ph. D. programs in twelve specializations. It is a self-contained residential campus located in a beautiful wooded land of about 248 acres. It is located on either side of Hyderabad - Warangal highway at a distance of 3 Kms from Kazipet railway station and 12 Kms from Warangal railway station. It is located at a distance of 140 Kms from Hyderabad. The Institute has more than 3600 students, 270 teaching staff and 360 administrative and supporting staff. It has a vast and strong alumni base, spread across the globe. For more details, visit nitw.ac.in.

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

The Department of CSE was established in the year 1991. The Department offers high quality undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs. The B. Tech. (CSE) program was started in the year 1983 with an intake of 20 students. The intake was subsequently increased to 120 in 2008. The M. Tech. (CSE) program was started in 1987 with an intake of 18 and subsequently increased to 20 in 2008 and M. Tech. (Information Security) was introduced in the year 2008 under Information Security Education Awareness (ISEA) project sanctioned by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Department of Expenditure, Government of India, New Delhi with intake of 20. Later, it was renamed as M. Tech. (Computer Science and Information Security). The Master of Computer Applications (MCA) program was started in 1986 with an intake of 30 and increased to 46 from 2008. B. Tech., M. Tech. (CSE) and M. Tech. (CSIS) programs were accredited in 2014 by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) as per Washington accord. For more details, visit nitw.ac.in/department/cse/.

Inaugural Ceremony

Dr. Soumen Kumar Roy

Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker

Scientist G, Technology Director IT, DRDL Hyderabad

Professor Bidyadhar Subudhi

Director, NIT Warangal

Speakers

Dr. Raveendra Medicherla

Principal Scientist, TCS Bengaluru

Dr. Lakshmi Eswari P R

Scientist G, CDAC Hyderabad

Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda

Associate Professor, IIT Tirupati

Prof. Durga Prasad Mohapatra

Professor, NIT Rourkela

Prof. Ravichandra Sadam

Professor, NIT Warangal

Dr. Saurabh Tiwari

Associate Professor, DA-IICT Ahmedabad

Dr. Umamaheswara Sharma B

Assistant Professor, NIT Calicut

Prof. P. Radha Krishna

NIT Kurukshetra, Professor, NIT Warangal

Dr. Lov Kumar

Assistant Professor, NIT Kurukshetra

Dr. Santosh Singh Rathore

Assistant Professor, IIIT Gwalior

Dr. Jagannath Singh

Associate Professor, KIIT Bhubaneswar

Dr. Subhrakanta Panda

Associate Professor BITS Pilani, Hyderabad

Mr. Sandeep Romana

Scientist E, CDAC Hyderabad

Dr. Sangharatna Godboley

Assistant Professor, NIT Warangal

Dr. Sanjaya Kumar Panda

Assistant Professor, NIT Warangal

Mr. Pushkar Kishore

NIT Rourkela and Centurion University Bhubaneswar

Dr. Mahesh Patil

CDAC Hyderabad

Tentative Technical Sessions

Day 1: 27-11-2024 (Wednesday)

08.30 AM – 09.00 AMRegistration
09.00 AM – 09.45 AMInauguration Ceremony
09.45 AM - 10:00 AMGet together and High Tea
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM “Recent Trends and Challenges in Software Testing” - Dr. Soumen Kumar Roy, DRDL Hyderabad, India
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMCoffee Chat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM“Demystifying Android Security: Tools and techniques for Mobile App Security Analysis” - Dr. Mahesh Patil, CDAC Hyderabad, India
12:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM“Black-Box Testing: Case Studies” - Prof. Durga Prasad Mohapatra, NIT Rourkela, India
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM“Leveraging AI for enhancing supply chain security against bank drops” - Mr. Pushkar Kishore, NIT Rourkela, India
04:00 PM - 04:15 PMCoffee Chat
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM“LLM for Security Fuzz Testing” - Dr. Sangharatna Godboley, NIT Warangal, India

Day 2: 28-11-2024 (Thursday)

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM “White-Box Testing: Case Studies” - Prof. Durga Prasad Mohapatra, NIT Rourkela, India
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMCoffee Chat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM“Key Aspects of Financial Security Issues in Software Testing” - Dr. Umamaheswara Sharma B, NIT Calicut, India
12:15 PM - 02:00 PMLunch Break
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM“Engineering Smart Contracts and Data Contracts” - Prof. P. Radha Krishna, NIT Warangal, India
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM“Threats in Financial Security: Challenges and Use Cases” Prof. Ravichandra Sadam, NIT Warangal, India
04:00 PM - 04:15 PMCoffee Chat
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM“Is MC/DC enough? - Proposing SC-MCC in Modern Era to achieve higher fault detection rate” - Dr. Sangharatna Godboley, NIT Warangal, India

Day 3: 29-11-2024 (Friday)

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM“Explainable AI for Android Malware Prediction” - Dr. Lov Kumar , NIT Kurukshetra, India
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMCoffee Chat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM“LLMs for Security Testing: Are we there yet?” - Dr Saurabh Tiwari, DA-IICT Gandhinagar, India
12:15 PM - 02:00 PMLunch Break
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM“Detecting Financial Attacks Using Transformer and Cluster-Attention” - Dr. Umamaheswara Sharma B, NIT Calicut, India
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM“Security in Cloud Application” Dr. Sanjaya Kumar Panda, NIT Warangal, India
04:00 PM - 04:15 PMCoffee Chat
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM“Segregation of Information Security from Information Technology” - Panel Discussion: Prof. Durga Prasad Mohapatra, Prof. P. Radha Krishna, Prof. Ravichandra Sadam, Dr. Lov Kumar, Dr. Saurabh Tiwari, Dr. Umamaheswara Sharma B, Moderator: Dr. Sangharatna Godboley

Day 4: 30-11-2024 (Saturday)

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM“The Evolving Landscape of Software Security Vulnerability Detection: Background and Theory” Dr. Santosh Singh Rathore, IIIT Gwalior, India
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMCoffee Chat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM“Building a Secure System through Malicious Software Identification” - Dr. Jagannath Singh, KIIT Bhubaneswar, India
12:15 PM - 02:00 PMLunch Break
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM“Security in Agile Software Development” - Dr. Saurabh Tiwari, DA-IICT Ahmedabad, India
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM“Application Security in Quantum Computing World” - Dr. Raveendra Medicherla, TCS Bengaluru, India
04:00 PM - 04:15 PMCoffee Chat
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM“The Evolving Landscape of Software Security Vulnerability Detection: Real World Case Studies” Dr. Santosh Singh Rathore, IIIT Gwalior, India

Day 5: 01-12-2024 (Sunday)

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM“LLMs for Code Tasks Via Security - Current and Future Trends” - Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda, IIT Tirupati, India
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMCoffee Chat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM“Multi-Factor Authentication Approach for Secure Multi-Cloud Computing Systems” - Dr. Subhrakanta Panda, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India
12:15 PM - 02:00 PMLunch Break
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM“Learnings from recent security incidents: A case study based approach.” - Mr. Sandeep Romana, CDAC Hyderabad, India
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM“Cyber Threats in Software Development and Necessity of Secure SDLC” - Dr. Lakshmi Eswari P R, CDAC Hyderabad, India
04:00 PM - 04:15 PMCoffee Chat
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM“Advanced Debugging Techniques for Secure Software” - Dr. Jagannath Singh, KIIT Bhubaneswar, India
06:00 PM - 06:30 PMValedictory Function and Coffee Chat

Coordinators

Dr. Sangharatna Godboley

NIT Warangal, India

Dr. Sanjaya Kumar Panda

NIT Warangal, India

Prof. Durga Prasad Mohapatra

NIT Rourkela, India

Chief Patron

Prof. Bidyadhar Subudhi

Director, NIT Warangal

Patron

Prof. R. Padmavathy

Head (CSE), NIT Warangal

Advisory Committee

Prof. Meenakshi D'Souza

IIIT Bangalore & ACM

Prof. Rajib Mall

Shiv Nadar Institution Noida

Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni

IIIT Lucknow

Prof. M. R. Satapathy

IIT Bhubaneswar

Prof. Anshuman Banerjee

ISI Kolkata

Prof. Y. Raghu Reddy

IIIT Hyderabad

Dr. R. Venkatesh

TCS Pune

Dr. Anjaneyulu Pasala

CMRIT Bangalore

Prof. R. B. V. Subramaanyam

NIT Warangal

Prof. P. Radha Krishna

NIT Warangal

Dr. S. Ravi Chandra

NIT Warangal

Organizing Committee

Prof. P. Radha Krishna

Prof. Rashmi Ranjan Rout

Dr. M. Srinivas

Dr. Manjubala Bisi

Dr. M Sandhya

Dr. Balaprakasa Rao Killi

Dr. Venkateswara Rao Kagita

Dr. Ramalingaswamy Cheruku

Dr. Shivadarshan S L

Dr. Nidhi Sonkar

Financial Chair

Prof. P. Radha Krishna

NIT Warangal

REGISTRATION DETAILS

The registration fee allows the participants to attend all the sessions. To make successful registration please fill up this form:
Link 1: https://forms.gle/ayFK2zb9HcXKYoT36
Link 2: https://faas.isea.app/formview/rtst24

Last Date for Registration: 20th November 2024   26th November 2024

Registration Fees in INR (including GST)

Industry and R&D Organizations 2360
Faculty 1180
Research Scholars and Students 590
Research Scholars and Students from NIT Warangal NIL
 

Payment Details

Account Name: DIRECTOR RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Account No. : 62266262236
Bank: STATE BANK OF INDIA
Address: STATE BANK OF INDIA, N I T BR, WARANGAL, District WARANGAL State Telangana
Branch: N I T BR
IFSC Code: SBIN0020149 (used for RTGS and NEFT transactions)
Branch Code: 020149

Note: The registration fee includes the Workshop Kit, Tea/Coffee/Snacks, Lunches, and Banquet Lunch. It excludes accommodation and dinners. However, subject to fund availability, the travel through the shortest train route can be reimbursed

Fee Payment Procedure: Registration fee is to be remitted online through NEFT to the bank account. Proof of remittance of the requisite registration fee (with date and transaction number) should be email to sanghu@nitw.ac.in. The payment details will be sent to the registered participants.

Note: Please enter RTST2024 code in remarks while doing transaction

ARCHIVES

RTST-2023

SPONSORS

Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Science and Engineering Research Board, India

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA)

IIT BHILAI INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION (IBITF)

NITMINER Technologies Private Limited

CORRESPONDENCE

Address

Dr. Sangharatna Godboley
Assistant Professor & Coordinator, RTST - 2023
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Warangal

Call Us

07013306805

Email Us

sanghu@nitw.ac.in