CALL FOR PAPERS / PARTICIPATION After 1 year pause Testing and Automation devroom is coming again to [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/). This room is about building better software through a focus on testing and automation at all layers of the stack. From creating libraries and end-user applications all the way down to packaging, distribution and deployment. Testing and automation is not isolated to a single toolchain, language or platform, there is much to learn and share regardless of background! # What Since Testing and Automation devroom has been a regular at FOSDEM, here are some ideas of what we would like to see, and what worked in prior years, they're just ideas though. Check out the [2017](https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/testing_and_automation/), [2018](https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/testing_and_automation/) schedules for inspiration. ### Testing in the real, open source world * War stories/strategies for testing large scale or complex projects * Demistyfy resource e.g. systems/device/cloud provisioning in a CI loop * Tools that extend the ability to test low-level code, for example bootloaders, init systems, etc. * Projects that are introducing new/interesting ways of testing "systems" * Address the automated testing frameworks fragmentation * Lessons learned from testing ### Cool Tools (good candidates for lightning talks) * How your open source tool made developing quality software better * What tools do you use to setup your CI/CD * Combining projects/plugins/tools to build amazing things "Not enough people in the open source community know how to use $X, but here's a tutorial on how to use $X to make your project better." # Where FOSDEM is hosted at [Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium](https://fosdem.org/2020/practical/transportation/). # When * CFP Submission Deadline: **23:59 UTC, 10 December 2019** * Schedule Announced: **15 December 2019** * Presentations: **1 February 2020** # How Please submit one (or more) 30-40 minute talk proposal(s) OR one (or more) 10 minute lightning talk proposal(s) by **23:59 UTC on December 10th 2019**. We will notify all those submitting proposals about their acceptance by December 15th 2019. To submit a talk proposal (you can submit multiple proposals if you'd like) with [Pentabarf](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM20), the FOSDEM paper submission system. Be sure to select `Testing and Automation` otherwise we won't see it! You can create an account, or use an existing account if you already have one. Please note: FOSDEM is a [FLOSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software) community event, by and for the community, please ensure your topic is appropriate (i.e. this isn't the right forum for commercial product presentations) # Who * [A. Todorov](https://github.com/atodorov) - Kiwi TCMS project lead * [A. Sankov](https://github.com/asankov) - Kiwi TCMS developer * [A. Roxell](https://github.com/roxell) - Linaro, QA and Kernel Engineer * [C. Hrubis](https://github.com/metan-ucw) - SUSE For more/update-to-date information, please see https://fosdem-testingautomation.github.io -- Alex Todorov