This year the workshop has a special theme on testing Web services. Submissions on this topic will be particular welcome, but papers on other topics are also welcome. 

Testing Web Services introduces new challenges to software practitioners due to the dynamic and loosely-coupled nature of service-oriented systems.  Web Services are typically dynamically discovered, composed and reconfigured.  Furthermore, Web service providers are usually third parties and not in-house developers. Traditional testing techniques need to be adjusted and novel testing methodologies need to be investigated so that they can be applied to testing Web services.   The need for automated testing is even more imperative in testing Web services due to the highly adaptive and dynamic operation conditions of Web services.  Test cases need to be generated automatically; just-in-time testing needs to be performed to verify Web service conformance; integration testing is needed for the verification of compositions of services.

Submissions on this topic are especially invited, but papers on other topics are also welcome.

Three sessions on this special theme will be organised as follows. 

• Two keynote sessions with invited keynote speeches by active leaders in the area, followed by a period for in-depth discussion. 
   
• A regular paper session with presentations of accepted papers on the special theme to report the current state of art in research. We are seeking for regular paper for presentation in the regular session.
   
• A case study session aiming at an in-depth discussion on a specific open problem in test automation in order to identify the difficulties and specific issues of the problem, to evaluate potential solutions, and to share experiences. It will start with a description and discussion of the case study problems and invite the participants to discuss how the problems are to be addressed in various different approaches. The participants will be organized into a number of groups. Each group works on a sub-problem of model-based testing. The results will be reported to the whole workshop.