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Testing consumes the largest effort among all phases of software development. More than 50% of the development effort is being spent on testing. Reliability, quality and effective reuse of software depend to a large extent on thorough testing. Software testing requires the largest manpower among all other development roles, which implies more job opportunities in software industries. Software testing is getting more complex and sophisticated every year due to larger and more complex programs and newer programming paradigms, such as object-oriented programming, aspect-oriented programming, feature-oriented programming, etc. The traditional black box and white box testing techniques cannot be directly applied to the testing of software developed in these programming languages.

Software testing has emerged as one of the breakthroughs in Software Engineering. Various software testing techniques and tools have been developed in recent days to assist software developers and testers. These testing techniques will help in achieving better reliability and quality of the software systems. Also, recently many new techniques have come up in the area of program analysis, which help in better software understanding and debugging. Hence, there is a need to promote research and development in these areas. This special session RAPAST-2024 will provide a forum for discussions on theoretical and practical aspects of advanced program analysis and testing, exchanging research ideas and challenges, and exploring possible solutions and future directions. The main aim of this special session is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. This special session is an attempt to bring together the researchers and practitioners who are working in the areas of program analysis, software testing, software reliability and quality, to discuss and present their work.