1st International Workshop on Software Faults (IWSF 2016)

With the increasing use of software systems comes the need for better software quality control techniques. Software quality is a broad concept that has many manifestations in areas like software reliability, software security, software testing, software maintenance, and so on. These areas share the common objective of preventing, detecting, and correcting faults. Yet, the concept of faults, despite its importance, is marked by considerable confusion. 

The terminology in the field is not coherent. How we group faults and relate them to each other, conceptually and from a diagnostic and solution perspective differs. In this workshop, we look at specific reliability issues of software faults, defects, anomalies or bugs, for a wide variety of industries and types of systems with the goal to identify similarities, differences in processes, categorizations, diagnostics and solutions. A good starting theme would be to look at run-time crashes of systems, and how we relate them to design and implementation flaws. In addition, while the general concept of faults is well studied in areas like software testing, domain-specific faults have not received as much attention. 

IWSF 2016 is collocated with ISSRE 2016 (27th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Ottawa, Canada), which will be held in the beautiful city of Ottawa, ON, Canada, from October 23rd to 27th, 2016.