Software quality assurance (SQA) is a planned and systematic pattern of actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a software product conforms to requirements during software development. SQA consists of methodologies and techniques of assessing the software development processes and methods, tools, and technologies used to ensure the quality of the developed software. SQA is typically achieved through the use of well-defined standard practices, including tools and processes, for quality control to ensure the integrity and reliability of software. This special issue serves as a platform for researchers and practitioners to present theory, results, experience, and other advances in SQA.

We invite authors to submit original research and/or review articles that seek to investigate SQA methodologies and techniques. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Recent new/key developments in SQA methods
• Software validation, verification, and testing
• Software quality estimation, measurements, and metrics
• SQA modeling, certification, evaluation, and improvement
• SQA standards and models
• SQA case studies
• Data analysis and risk management
• Best industry practices in SQA

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: