Software Quality: Future Perspectives on Software Engineering Quality

The 13th Software Quality Days (SWQD 2021) conference and tools fair brought together researchers and practitioners from business, industry, and academia working on quality assurance and quality management for software engineering and information technology. The SWQD conference is one of the largest software quality conferences in Europe. Over the past years, we have received a growing number of scientific contributions to the SWQD symposium. Starting back in 2012, the SWQD symposium included a dedicated scientific program published in scientific proceedings. In this 10th edition, we received an overall number of 13 high-quality submissions from researchers across Europe which were each peer-reviewed by 4 or more reviewers. Out of these submissions, we selected 3 contributions as full papers, yielding an acceptance rate of 23%. Further, we accepted 5 short papers representing promising research directions to spark discussions between researchers and practitioners on promising work in progress. This year, we introduced two interactive sessions: One on Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence, to emphasis future directions in Software Quality supported by paper contributions, and another one on Academia Industry Collaborations, not supported by paper contributions. Furthermore, we have two scientific keynote speakers for the scientific program, who contributed two invited papers. Tony Gorschek from Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, elaborates further on the role and relevance of empirical software engineering to foster academia-industry collaborations, and Henning Femmer from Qualicen GmbH, Germany, elaborates on the future role of a requirements engineer in light of the ever-growing automation in today’s engineering processes. Main topics from academia and industry focused on Systems and Software Quality Management Methods, Improvements of Software Development Methods and Processes, latest trends and emerging topics in Software Quality, and Testing and Software Quality Assurance.