Foreword to the AST '11: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test

As proud co-chairs of the 6th workshop on Automation of Software Test, we would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to AST2011 and to thank all participants for taking the time out from their busy lives and the work in their home countries to make the effort to attend this workshop. The theme of this year's workshop, aligned with the ICSE 2011 conference theme, is Relating Software Design to Test Automation.