Fourth International Worshop on Software Quality Assurance

The goal of software engineering is to achieve high-quality software in a cost-effective, timely, and reproducible manner. Advances in technology enable reductions in costs and schedule, but their effect
on software quality assurance remains often unclear.

The widespread availability of interconnectivity has changed the nature of software systems and has deeply affected both complexity and quality requirements, raising new design and quality issues that call for new approaches to quality assurance. Many modern software systems consist of large sets of heterogeneously developed components. Object-oriented design, component-based software engineering, components off-the-shelf (COTS), design patterns, and open source software facilitate the development tasks, but assuring
the quality in scenarios that entail (combinations of) these concepts is problematic.

The goal of SOQUA is to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners to discuss and evaluate latest challenges, breakthroughs and experiences in the field of software quality assurance, and to identify open issues and future trends in this area.

SOQUA 2007 will put special focus on the role that self-adaptive and self-healing solutions can play in quality assurance. Self-adaptive and self-healing systems and technology promise to facilitate the control in system scenarios where complexity and characteristics make both human intervention and traditional
stop-debug-fix-redeploy-restart approaches impractical. Despite the many international events that address self-adaptive and self-healing research topics, the role of these new technologies in quality assurance
remains scarcely understood yet.

SOQUA 2007 will be held in Dubrovnik, the jewel town in the beautiful Croatia region and it will be co-located with ACM SIGSOFT 2007 - ESEC/FSE.