WoSQ 2012 - 9th International Workshop on Software Quality

Software becomes ever more feature-rich and thereby harder to distinguish based on its functionality. Quality now differentiates between similar software products. Specifying, constructing, and assuring quality has been under research for several decades and continues to be a long-term research area, because of its many facets and its complexity. Current national and international initiatives show that there is an active research community in academia and industry. This workshop builds on the rich experiences of a series of previous workshops and aims to bring this community together to discuss current issues and future developments.

Currently, there are few venues that look explicitly at the bigger picture of software quality. Instead being specific for security or maintenance, we want to bring together researchers, who look at quality more comprehensively. We aim to discuss the state-of-the-art as well as the state of the practice and new developments. From these discussions, new ideas and collaboration can be formed.
The topics of interest in this discussion span the full range of software quality issues, including but not limited to:

* Software quality engineering
* Software quality management
* Software quality control
* Quality assurance techniques (testing, inspection, reviews, code analysis)
* Software product evaluation and certification
* Software quality for evolving systems, cyber-physical systems, SOA-based systems or in the cloud
* Models of product or process quality
* Software process evaluation and improvement
* Quality metrics
* Tool support for all of the above
* Case studies and empirical results