The 21st annual International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010) 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 and rigorous empirical studies. ISSRE is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Reliability Society. It has grown to become the leading conference in the area and one of the few that attracts the technical leadership from both Academia and Industry. Last year (2009) we had an almost even split (50-50) between Academia and Industry - a rare achievement for any conference. ISSRE focuses on the theory and practice of software systems reliability engineering. Research papers are extensively reviewed by a large program committee and the selected papers are coveted. An Industrial committee separately reviews papers for the Industry track looking for relevance and applicability. ISSRE has some of the best Industry case studies reported. ISSRE Workshops have picked up considerable momentum. In 2009 we had over 100 participants in four workshops. Some of the workshop are becoming regulars - in that those communities meet year after year at ISSRE (Embedded Systems Reliability, and Software Rejuvenation). We hope to build these communities and seed new ones that are vital to current interests in Research and Industry. The following are a few of the areas that ISSRE covers in papers, fast abstracts, workshops, tutorials, and keynotes.

• Reliability, availability, and safety of software systems
• Validation and verification, testing
• Software quality
• Software security
• Fault tolerance, survivability, and resilience of software systems
• Systems (hardware + software) reliability engineering
• Services reliability engineering
• Open source software reliability engineering
• Metrics and measurements, estimation, prediction of quality/reliability
• Supporting tools and automation
• Industry best practices
• Empirical studies of any of the above topics

History of ISSRE Conferences

1. 1990 - Washington, DC, USA
2. 1991 - Austin, TX, USA
3. 1992 - Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
4. 1993 - Denver, CO, USA
5. 1994 - Monterey, CA, USA
6. 1995 - Toulouse, France
7. 1996 - White Plains, NY, USA CS Digital Library
8. 1997 - Albuquerque, NM, USA CS Digital Library
9. 1998 - Paderborn, Germany CS Digital Library
10. 1999 - Boca Raton, FL, USA
11. 2000 - San Jose, CA, USA
12. 2001 - Hong Kong CS Digital Library
13. 2002 - Annapolis, MD, USA
14. 2003 - Denver, CO, USA
15. 2004 - Saint Malo, Bretagne, France
16. 2005 - Chicago, IL, USA
17. 2006 - Raleigh, NC, USA
18. 2007 - Trollhattan, Sweden
19. 2008 - Seattle, WA
20. 2009 - Mysuru, India

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