Expanding, theory, and practice: Report on the 4th International Workshop on the Automation of Software Test

The Fourth International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST 2009) at the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009) expands to two days, supports a special theme of Testing Web Services, adds a Case Studies from Business and Industry session, and includes a charette-style work session. 14 regular papers and 7 short case-study papers will be presented. This report summarizes the organization of the workshop as well as the sessions and papers to be presented.