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The aims of the Software Quality Journal are:
(1) To promote awareness of the crucial role of quality management in the effective construction of the software systems developed, used, and/or maintained by organizations in pursuit of their business objectives.
(2) To provide a forum of the exchange of experiences and information on software quality management and the methods, tools and products used to measure and achieve it.
(3) To provide a vehicle for the publication of academic papers related to all aspects of software quality. 

The Journal addresses all aspects of software quality from both a practical and an academic viewpoint. It invites contributions from practitioners and academics, as well as national and international policy and standard making bodies, and sets out to be the definitive international reference source for such information. 

The Journal will accept research, technique, case study, survey and tutorial submissions that address quality-related issues including, but not limited to: internal and external quality standards, management of quality within organizations, technical aspects of quality, quality aspects for product vendors, software measurement and metrics, software testing and other quality assurance techniques, total quality management and cultural aspects. Other technical issues with regard to software quality, including: data management, formal methods, safety critical applications, and CASE.

Editor-in-Chief:
Rachel Harrison
Oxford Brookes University, UK
Associate Editor:
Sudipto Ghosh 
Colorado State University, USA
Editorial Board:
Aneliese K. Amschler Andrews, University of Denver, CO, USA
Giuliano Antoniol, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Francesca Arcelli Fontana, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy 
Ayse Basar Bener, Ryerson University, Canada
Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama, USA
Steve Counsell, Brunel University London, UK
Giovanni Denaro, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Stuttgart, Germany 
Robert Feldt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 
Carmine Gravino, University of Salerno, Italy
Tracy Hall, Brunel University, UK
Mark Harman, University College London, UK
Ho-Won Jung, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
Jens Krinke, University College London, UK
Hareton K.N. Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tim Menzies, North Carolina State University, USA
Jeff Offutt, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA 
Roberto Pietrantuono, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Marek Reformat, University of Alberta, Canada 
Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Philippe Robert, ISOSCOPE, Toulouse, France
Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Ctra. Barcelona, Spain
Marc Roper, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Gregg Rothermel, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, NB,, USA
Yijun Yu, The Open University, Milton Keynes,UK
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University,UK