As a continuation of previous years'special section on software systems,this special section encourages and promotes research to address challenges from the perspective of software systems.The goal of this special section is to present state-of-the-art and high-quality original research in the area of software systems.
The theme of this special section is Dependable Software Engineering.This theme encompasses all the research challenges that concern software quality achieved through formal methods,software testing and analysis techniques that contribute to the development of dependable software.The ever increasing diversity,ubiquity,and dynamism of modern software systems are making the development of dependable software more challenging.