This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First Combined International Workshops on Formal Approaches to Software Testing, FATES 2006, and on Runtime Verification, RV 2006, held within the scope of FLoC 2006, the Federated Logic Conference in Seattle, WA, USA in August 2006. Coverage discusses formal approaches to test and analyze programs and monitor and guide their executions by using various techniques.

Testing often accounts for more than 50% of the required e?ort during system development.Thechallengeforresearchistoreducethesecostsbyprovidingnew methods for the speci?cation and generation of high-quality tests. Experience has shown that the use of formal methods in testing represents a very important means for improving the testing process. Formal methods allow for the analysis andinterpretationofmodelsinarigorousandprecisemathematicalmanner.The use of formal methods is not restricted to system models only. Test models may alsobeexamined.Analyzingsystemmodelsprovidesthepossibilityofgenerating complete test suites in a systematic and possibly automated manner whereas examining test models allows for the detection of design errors in test suites and their optimization with respect to readability or compilation and execution time. Due to the numerous possibilities for their application, formal methods have become more and more popular in recent years. The Formal Approaches in Software Testing (FATES) workshop series also bene?ts from the growing popularity of formal methods. After the workshops in Aalborg (Denmark, 2001), Brno (Czech Republic, 2002) and Montr ́ eal (Canada, 2003), FATES 2004 in Linz (Austria) was the fourth workshop of this series. Similar to the workshop in 2003, FATES 2004 was organized in a?liation with the IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2004). FATES 2004 received 41 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least three independent reviewers from the Program Committee with the help of some additional reviewers. Based on their evaluations, 14 full papers and one wo- in-progress paper from 11 di?erent countries were selected for presentation.

The RV series of workshops brings together researchers from academia and - dustry that are interested in runtime veri?cation. The goal of the RV workshops is to study the ability to apply lightweight formal veri?cation during the exe- tion of programs. This approach complements the o?ine use of formal methods, which often use large resources. Runtime veri?cation methods and tools include the instrumentation of code with pieces of software that can help to test and monitor it online and detect, and sometimes prevent, potential faults. RV 2009 was held during June 26–28 in Grenoble, adjacent to CAV 2009. The program included 11 accepted papers. Two invited talks were given by AmirPnueli, on“CompositionalApproachtoMonitoringLinearTemporalLogic Properties” and Sriram Rajamani on “Veri?cation, Testing and Statistics.” The program also included three tutorials. We would like to thank the members of the Program Committee and ad- tional referees for the reviewing and participation in the discussions.

Formal methods provide system designers with the possibility to analyze system models and reason about them with mathematical precision and rigor. The use of formal methods is not restricted to the early development phases of a system, though. The di?erent testing phases can also bene?t from them to ease the p- duction and application of e?ective and e?cient tests. Many still regard formal methods and testing as an odd combination. Formal methods traditionally aim at verifying and proving correctness (a typical academic activity), while testing shows only the presence of errors (this is what practitioners do). Nonetheless, there is an increasing interest in the use of formal methods in software testing. It is expected that formal approaches are about to make a major impact on eme- ing testing technologies and practices. Testing proves to be a good starting point for introducing formal methods in the software development process. This volume contains the papers presented at the 3rd Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software, FATES 2003, that was in a?liation with the IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2003). This year, FATES received 43 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least three independent reviewers from the program committee with the help of - ditional reviewers. Based on their evaluations, 18 papers submitted by authors from 13 di?erent countries were selected for presentation at the workshop.

The two-volume set LNCS 7609 and 7610 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in October 2012. The two volumes contain papers presented in the topical sections on adaptable and evolving software for eternal systems, approaches for mastering change, runtime verification: the application perspective, model-based testing and model inference, learning techniques for software verification and validation, LearnLib tutorial: from finite automata to register interface programs, RERS grey-box challenge 2012, Linux driver verification, bioscientific data processing and modeling, process and data integration in the networked healthcare, timing constraints: theory meets practice, formal methods for the development and certification of X-by-wire control systems, quantitative modelling and analysis, software aspects of robotic systems, process-oriented geoinformation systems and applications, handling heterogeneity in formal development of HW and SW Systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2017, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in September 2017. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited presentations, 4 short papers, 5 tool papers, and 3 tutorials, were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of monitoring and analysis of hardware, software and more general system executions. Runtime verification techniques are lightweight techniques to assess correctness, reliability, and robustness; these techniques are significantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification.