Proceedings of the 19th international doctoral symposium on Components and architecture

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 19th International Doctoral Symposium on Components and Architecture -- WCOP'14. Since its first years in the nineties, then as an ECOOP workshop, WCOP has been one of the driving forces that brought component orientation into broader consciousness of the software-development community. At that time, the definitions of basic terminology were discussed and concepts were clarified. In the 2000 decade, the component idea got established in dedicated conferences (foremost CBSE, itself a former ICSE workshop) and also influenced the software architecture community strongly. During these times, WCOP evolved to a workshop for young researchers to present new ideas and to collect feedback from established members of the community. In 2010, WCOP institutionalized its role as a forum for young researchers in our community via becoming the doctoral symposium of the CompArch federated conference. In the same year, WCOP introduced the CompArch Young Investigator Award, which is given to the work of young researchers in our community to award specifically promising work of expected high importance. This year, the fifth CompArch Young Investigator Award was given to Fouad Omri (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) for his paper entitled "Weighted Statistical White-Box Testing with Proportional-Optimal Stratification". WCOP is part of the federated event CompArch, this year together with "CBSE 2014: 17th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering" and "QoSA 2014: 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures". We are grateful to the organizers of these events for making CompArch a successful federated event on Component-based Software Engineering and Software Architecture.