This ASQN had four countries, China, Korea, Malaysia and Japan in order of the presentations. There were one presentation from China, two from Korea, two from Malysia and one from Japan. Table 1. shows the conference schedule that the presentations were organized from 13:00 until 17:00. Networking dinner was held after the conference at Toyo University.

Prof. Nonaka introduced ASQN's objectives and past activities and mentioned the importance of software quality for the “2025 cliff” and frequent software failures as Japanese IT trends.

Prof. Yang from China presented with a novel style of “sequential interpretation” presentation that uses an interpreting device to translate his speech in Chinese into English voice. He listed the current status and challenges of the IT industry in China. For example, the software industry market in Shanghai has increased 118 times in these 18 years since 2000. Now there were 37,800 software companies in China in 2018, with a market size of 6.3 trillion yuan (about 900 billion USD). Due to this rapid expansion, there are mismatches between the supply and demand of human resources responsible for software development, and human resource development has become an issue. Their challenges to the future include ecosystem among building hardware such as CPUs, basic software such as operating systems, and applications that run on them.

Mr. Chon from Korea presented test methods for Cyber-Physical-System (CPS) represented by autonomous driving assistance and drones. In testing for CPS, there are restrictions on the actual environment when the testing uses the actual Physical-System. Mr. Chon developed a method to test software without relying on real-world constraints. The method focuses on three aspects: diversity, efficiency, and safety. Then the method performs software testing in virtual environments.

Mr. Kim from Korea also made a presentation related to CPS. Based on his project experiences, he discussed software quality in the Industry 4.0 era. First, he explained Industry 4.0 and the idea of CPS that includes automation levels and examples of optimized smart factories. In addition, he introduced the consideration of software quality for safety and diversity using examples of the maintenance support system for steelmaking processes and the simulation system for large-scale buildings from his own project experience.

Mr. Amir from Malaysia introduced the works for independent verification and validation (IV & V) for software reliability. They have created an IV & V handbook and promote it to improve software quality. The IV & V handbook emphasizes evidence and reduces project risk by defining works in detail.

Ms. Halizawati from Malaysia gave a presentation about quality improvement using metrics for the software development process. Generally speaking, there are various metrics such as product metrics and process metrics. Therefore, the selecting metrics is necessary for use in actual projects. Ms. Halizawati's organization is working to continuously select metrics items and share the results as Process Capability Baseline (PCB).

At the end of the presentation, Prof. Nishi, the University of Electro-Communications, Japan presented about AI product quality assurance guidelines. The guideline was created by the AI Product Quality Assurance Consortium (QA4AI Consortium). For example, AI may produce wrong outputs, so we should consider how to allow it and/or how to make it not be wrong. The current study results have been summarized in four specific areas: content generation system, smart speaker, industrial process, and autonomous driving.

At the closing session, Ms. Suwipa from Thailand, who participated for the first time, commented for ASQN conference and that the next ASQN is scheduled to be held in Thailand.

Next ASQN conference will be held in Thailand. We are arranging the ASQN conference. We look forward to seeing you again.

ASQN2019 Program

Date	Time	Contents
Day1 Monday 9th Sep,2019	p.m.	(invited only) Business tours：KOMATSU IoT Center Tokyo
Day2 Tuesday 10th Sep,2019	11:00-12:30	(invited only) ASQN board meeting and lunch at Toyo University.
	13:00-13:15	Opening Makoto Nonaka，Toyo University，Japan Download
	13:15-13:45	The Trend of China's Software Industry Development Yang Genxing East China University of Science and Technology, China Abstract: The Trend of China's Software Industry Development (1) General Situation of Software Industry Development in China and Shanghai in 2018 (2) Key Areas of Software Industry Development in China (3) Development of Software Engineering and Software Quality Standards (4) Training of Software Talents with High Skills (5) Opportunities and Challenges of Software Industry
	13:45-14:15	Suggestion of Testing Method for Industrial Level Cyber-Physical System Sunil Chon ThinkforBL , Korea Download Abstract: As CPS becomes important, a new testing environment is needed. Because CPS is affected by the external environment, it is important to actually reproduce and test the external environment. CPS's new testing environment requires resolution of the following constraints: (Diversity) It is difficult to create constraints on various external environments (natural environment, temperature, humidity, etc.). (Safety) Actual test environment such as explosion detection, fire detection, accident detection is dangerous. (Efficiency) It takes too much time. In this presentation, we introduce CPS testing method in a virtual test environment that solves the above three constraints, focusing on cases.
	14:30-15:00	Consideration for SW quality Factor in the era of industry 4.0 （Focusing on CPS operational environment） Yong Gyu Kim Apexsoft , Korea Abstract: - Sharing the factors to be considered and the experience of applying quality verification method to secure the quality of the SW system in the industrial field adopting the CPS concept in the era of the fourth industrial revolution centered on artificial intelligence technology.) - Explanation of the available reference architectures according to the case studies and analysis based on experience with CPS application systems or similar systems in areas such as SCADA and ICS. - Introduction of risk factors such as potential obstacles and performance degradation when applying the latest technology, and examples of ways to mitigate it.
	15:00-15:30	Quantifying Confidence Using Metrics – an IV&V Perspective Amiruddin Jaafar Sidek Malaysian Software Testing Board , Malaysia Abstract: Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) practices involve multiple types of activities – review, testing, auditing etc – and produce various reports and readings. - How do we review/analyze these reports and readings leveraging measurements and metrics? - What are the tell-tale signs that the product/project is not in the pink of health? - What does it take to ensure stakeholders have high confidence in software products and services offered?
	15:30-16:00	Software Process Metrics Halizawati MOHD HALID Custommedia Sdn Bhd, Malaysia Abstract: The software industry uses metrics to quantify the development, operation and maintenance of software. Software metrics are broadly classified as product metrics, process metrics and project metrics. - Product metrics define the product characteristics for example size, design features, complexity, performance, and quality level. - Process metrics are metrics pertaining to Process Quality that can be used to improve software development and maintenance. Software process metrics are associated to the effort to complete the project, the use of project resources, and the methodology to abide by. Process metrics are collected across all projects and over long periods of time. Examples of software process metrics are cost of quality, testing efficiency and defect removal efficiency. - Project metrics define the characteristics and execution of the project and are used to monitor and control the project. Examples include the values of human effort, cost, and project schedule. The above metrics are captured to establish and maintain a baseline. This baseline is known as the Process Capability Baseline (PCB) which represents a quantitative understanding of the performance of an organization's set of standard processes in support of quality and process-performance objectives. PCB contains measures which are made available so that current and future projects are able to use them to plan, predict outcomes and manage effort and results.
	16:00-16:15	Break
	16:15-16:45	Guidelines of Quality Assurance for Artificial-Intelligence-based products　and services（QA4AI） Yasuharu Nishi The university of Electro-Communications, Japan Abstract: Consortium of QA4AI published the guidelines for quality assurance of machine learning-based artificial intelligence on 17th May 2019. In this presentation, he will discuss about overview and methodology of the guidelines that includes axes of quality evaluation and technical catalog for ML-bases systems. The guidelines cover some specific ML-based systems such as generative systems, operational data in process systems, voice user interface and autonomous driving.
	16:45-17:00	Closing Makoto Nonaka，Toyo University，Japan
	17:10-18:15	Networking talks with drinks and snacks
Day3 Wednesday 11th Sep,2019	p.m.	(optional) SQiP Symposium※ Tutorial (in Japanese)
Day4 Thursday 12th Sep,2019	a.m.	(optional) SQiP Symposium※ Keynote Speech (in Japanese)

* ASQN 2019 is conjunction with SQiP symposium. The past SQiP symposiums are the following link: http://www.juse.jp/sqip/symposium/

There is no space to argue about the importance of software in the current society as part of social and industrial infrastructure. We can find software installed in the variety of products, systems, and programs and it is the software that determines not only their features but also the values of them.

Software does make a difference in the industrial competitiveness and contributes to strengthen national economic power.

There is no border in the software industry. Software development is being off-shored and is performed by project teams with multinational countries.

It is essential that we as an Asian community cooperate to pursue software quality excellence and achieve our higher competitiveness in the world. For that purpose, we propose herewith the establishment of Asian Software Quality Network.

1. Share our knowledge and experiences on software quality empirical methods/techniques and organization-wide practices that have been successfully applied in software business.
2. Provide opportunities for dedicated software organizations, practitioners and researchers to appeal their excellent outcomes, capability and competencies on software quality.
3. Show the Asian voice and increase the awareness of Asia in the world.

• China：SSIA（Shanghai Software Industry Association）
• Japan：JUSE/SQiP（Software Quality Profession）
• Korea：K.SEN（Korea Software Engineering Network）
• Malaysia：MSTB（Malaysian Software Testing Board）
• Thailand: SWPT（Software Park Thailand）
  
• Philippines：PSIA（Philippine Software Industry Association）