AST continues with a long record of international scientific forums on methods and solutions to automate software testing This year AST 2023 is the 4th edition of a conference that was formerly organized as workshops since 2006 The conference promotes high quality research contributions on methods for software test automation, and original case studies reporting practices in this field

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECBS 2023, which was held in Västerås, Sweden, in October 2023. The 11 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions and present software, hardware, and communication perspectives of systems engineering through its many facets. The special theme of this year is ”Engineering for Responsible AI“.