STA 2013: Message from the Workshop Chairs
2013
On behalf of the program committee, we welcome you to Kyoto.A significant percentage of time and effort in software development is spent on testing and yet the achieved quality is less than desired.To reduce cost and improve quality, test automation solutions are necessary.To facilitate the discussion on this important area, we continue on the successes of this workshop introduced in 2009.The workshop provides an opportunity for academic researchers and industry participants and practitioners to exchange ideas, experiences, understand problems in theory and practice, and lay a foundation for the future in the area of test automation.We seek discussion on topic including but not restricted to various test automation techniques and methods, tool interoperability, automation in different development lifecycle methodologies, support for test methods, application in different domains, test tools and environments, experiments and empirical studies and visions of the future.We were fortunate to receive some high quality papers from diverse background.With very prompt help of our reviewers, we were able to select 4 regular papers.We would like to thank all the reviewers and program committee members for their thoughtful comments and help in selecting the papers.