This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2011, held in Paris, France, in November 2011. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully selected from 40 submissions. The papers address the conceptual, theoretic, and practical problems of testing software systems, including communication prools, services, distributed platforms, middleware, controllers, and security infrastructures.