This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the scientific trackof the 8th Software Quality Days Conference, SWQD 2016, held in Vienna,Austria, in January 2016. The SWQD conference offers a range of comprehensive and valuableinformation by presenting new ideas from the latest research papers, keynotespeeches by renowned academics and industry leaders, professional lectures,exhibits, and tutorials. The fivescientific full papers accepted for SWQD were each peer reviewed by three ormore reviewers and selected out of 13 high-quality submissions. Further, nineshort papers were also presented and are included in this book. In addition,one keynote paper by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines is also included.