This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the scientific track
of the 8th Software Quality Days Conference, SWQD 2016, held in Vienna,
Austria, in January 2016.

The SWQD conference offers a range of comprehensive and valuable
information by presenting new ideas from the latest research papers, keynote
speeches by renowned academics and industry leaders, professional lectures,
exhibits, and tutorials.

The five
scientific full papers accepted for SWQD were each peer reviewed by three or
more reviewers and selected out of 13 high-quality submissions. Further, nine
short papers were also presented and are included in this book. In addition,
one keynote paper by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines is also included.