The 29th annual International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2018) is focused on innovative techniques and tools for assessing, predicting, and improving the reliability, safety, and security of software products. ISSRE also emphasizes industrial relevance, rigorous empirical studies and experience reports.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Reliability, availability and safety of software systems
• Validation and Verification
• Faults, errors, failures, defects, bugs
• Software quality and productivity
• Software security
• Dependability, survivability, fault tolerance and resilience of software systems
• Systems (hardware + software) reliability engineering
• Metrics and measurements, estimation, prediction of quality/reliability
• Services reliability engineering
• Open source software reliability engineering
• Web 2.0 reliability, availability and security issues
• Supporting tools and automation
• Industry best practices
• Software as a Service
• Virtualization and software reliability
• Reliability of mobile devices and applications
• Green and Sustainable Software Engineering
• Reliability of Big Data and Internet of Things
• Empirical studies of any of the above topics
• Software Standards