8th international workshop on automation of software test (AST 2013)

This paper is a report on The 8th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST 2013) at the 35th Interna¬tional Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013). It sets a special theme on testing-as-a-service (TaaS). Keynote speech and charette discussions are organized around this special theme. Eighteen full research papers and six short papers will be presented in the two-day workshop. The report will give the background of the workshop and the selection of the special theme, and report on the organization of the workshop. The provisional program will be presented with a list of the sessions and papers to be presented at the workshop.