Industry-Academia Collaboration in Software Testing: An Overview of TAIC PART 2017

Collaboration between industry and academia in software testing leads to improvement and innovation in industry, and it is the basis for achieving transferable and empirically evaluated results. Thus, the aim of TAIC PART is to forge collaboration between industry and academia on the challenging and exciting problem of real-world software testing. The workshop is promoted by representatives of both industry and academia, bringing together industrial software engineers and testers with researchers working on theory and practice of software testing. We present an overview of the 12th Workshop on Testing: Academia-Industry Collaboration, Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC PART 2017) and its contributions.