Abstract
This report summarizes the presentations and discussions that happened at PROFES 2013, the 14th International Conference on Product- Focused Software Process Improvement, which was held June 12-14, 2013 in Paphos, Cyprus. The main theme of PROFES is software process improvement (SPI) motivated by product, process, and service quality needs. PROFES 2013 addressed both quality engineering and management topics, divided into the areas of Decision Support in Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, Managing Software Processes, Safety-Critical Software Engineering, Software Measurement, Software Process Improvement, and Software Maintenance.