Despite research innovations and software technical improvements, quality aspects are still a crucial, critical and costly factor in modern software applications and systems. Challenges descend, among others, from new infrastructures, heterogeneity, openness and continuous evolution, technical and semantic interoperability barriers, security and trust concerns. In this complex scenario, the Verification and Validation (V&V) activities, evolving in parallel with software development, represent an important and fundamental mean for guaranteeing the integrity, adequacy and requirements conformance of the software applications and systems.

Following the well-established tradition of previous QUATIC editions, the ”Quality Aspects in Verification and Validation” track provides a forum to discuss novel V&V techniques, empirical V&V case studies and V&V success stories in the context of software quality assurance.

A particular focus on the challenges emerging from the new development workflows and domain specific context such as: Healthcare, Telecommunication, Networks and Media, Cloud Computing and Web Services, Mobile Devices, Big Data, Automotive and Transportation, Cyber-Physical Systems, Future Internet, Internet of Things, Finance & Business, Social Networks. etc.

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

• Formal Verification
• Model Based Testing
• Model Checking
• Manual testing practices and techniques
• Safety, Security and Privacy Testing
• Search Based Software Testing
• Software Reliability
• Test automation
• Testability and Design
• Testing and Development Processes
• Testing Education
• Testing in specific domains, such as mobile, web, embedded, concurrent, distributed, cloud, and real-time systems
• Testing/Debugging Tools
• Theory of Software Testing
• Empirical Studies
• Experience Reports

Track Committee

Co-Chairs:

• Eda Marchetti, CNR-ISTI, Italy
• João Pascoal Faria, FEUP, Portugal

Program Committee:

• Ana Cavalli, GET-INT, France
• Maria José Escalona, University of Seville, Spain
• Francisco Gortázar, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Sylvia Ilieva, Sofia University, Bulgaria
• Francesca Lonetti, CNR-ISTI, Italy
• Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
• Breno Miranda, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brasil
• Ioannis Parissis, Grenoble INP LCIS, France
• Ana Cristina Ramada Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal