The Association for Software Testing is a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to advancing the understanding and practice of software testing. The AST serves a community of scholars, students, and software development practitioners by providing forums for discussion of all aspects of software testing through conferences, publications, web sites, and other services. Our Mission: The Association for Software Testing is a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to advancing the understanding and practice of software testing. The AST serves a community of scholars, students, and software development practitioners by providing forums for discussion of all aspects of software testing through conferences, publications, web sites, and other services. Objectives * Encourage, facilitate, and coordinate partnerships between testing practitioners and testing researchers. * Host an annual AST Conference to bring together developers, testers, and researchers in an exchange of testing practices, theories, and techniques. * Support the teaching of software testing by encouraging projects to develop and publish resources that assist classroom presentation, grading, and self-study.