After a successful 11 th QuASoQ workshop, we have again included the following topics of interest:
• New approaches to measurement, evaluation, comparison, and improvement of software quality Overall, the workshop aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss their experiences in applying state-of-the-art approaches to measuring, assessing, and evaluating the quality of software systems and software development processes in general and software test processes in particular.
As software development organizations are constantly forced to develop software in the "right" quality, quality specification and quality assurance are crucial. Although there are many approaches to dealing with quantitative quality aspects, choosing a suitable set of techniques that best fit the specific project and organizational constraints is still challenging.
Even though approaches, methods, and techniques have been known for quite some time, little effort has been spent exchanging real-world problems with quantitative approaches. For example, only limited research has been devoted to empirically evaluating the risks, efficiency, or limitations of different testing techniques in industrial settings.
Hence, one main goal of the workshop was to exchange experience, present new promising approaches, and discuss how to set up, organize, and maintain quantitative approaches to software quality.
The QuASoQ workshop series started in 2013 and has since been organized as a collocated event of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC).
These are the past workshop editions:
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After a successful workshop in Seoul, we were delighted to hold it again in Chongqing, China, as part of the 31 st APSEC 2024 conference. However, one author couldn't get a visa in his home country in time, so his presentation had to be held on Zoom.
Based on our former experience, we wanted the workshop to be highly interactive. To have an exciting and interactive event sharing lots of experience, we organized the workshop presentations applying the author-discussant model.
According to this workshop model, papers are presented by one of the authors. After the presentation, a discussant starts the discussion based on pre-formulated questions. Therefore, the discussant had to prepare questions and know the presented paper's details. The general structure of each talk was as follows:
• The paper's author presented the paper (20 minutes).
• After that, the paper's discussant opened the discussion using their questions. • Finally, we moderated the discussion among the audience (5 minutes).
The presentations were divided into two sessions, with a coffee break in between. A chair accompanied each session and ensured the schedule was followed.
The following seven papers, covering very different topics, were submitted and accepted by the program committee for presentation and publication (the speaker is set in bold).
Many people contributed to this workshop's success. First, we want to thank the authors and presenters of the accepted papers. Furthermore, we want to express our gratitude to the APSEC 2024 workshop organizers; they did a perfect job and supported us in running the workshop.
As none of the workshop chairs could attend, Nils Wild from RWTH Aachen University chaired it. Many thanks to Nils for representing the chairs and heading the workshop.
Finally, we are glad that these people served on the program committee (most of them for many years) and supported the workshop by soliciting papers and writing peer reviews:
• Thanwadee Sunetnanta Mahidol University, Thailand