Message from the STAF Organizers

摘要

Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations (STAF) is a federation of leading conferences on software technologies. It provides a loose umbrella organization with a Steering Committee that ensures continuity. The STAF federated event takes place annually. The participating conferences and workshops may vary from year to year, but they all focus on foundational and practical advances in software technology. The conferences address all aspects of software technology, from object-oriented design, testing, mathematical approaches to modeling and verification, transformation, model-driven engineering, aspect-oriented techniques, and tools. STAF was created in 2013 as a follow-up to the TOOLS conference series that played a key role in the deployment of object-oriented technologies. TOOLS was created in 1988 by Jean Bezivin and Bertrand Meyer and STAF 2018 can be considered its 30th birthday.