Two trends are pushing the industry towards the merger of application development and operational management, activities that have largely been treated as distinct phases in the software lifecycle. The first trend, which has been on-going for some time, is that it is very difficult to set up meaningful test environments for distributed applications, with test setup consuming a large fraction of the test time. These difficulties here are a consequence of the need to: (1) have a large scale environment in which to test and (2) access realistic data in order to conduct meaningful tests, and (3) have multiple different test environments for multiple test phases. The second trend is architectural styles such as SOA, mesh-ups, and Web2.0 in which programmers integrate services from live web sites. Such composites of running services are a very different style of development and deployment from the use of programming frameworks such as J2EE and .NET. Chair: Tamar Eilam, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA. Panelists: Joe Hellerstein, Microsoft, USA, German Goldszmidt, IBM, USA, Jerry Rolia, HP Laboratories, USA, Mark Burgess, University College Oslo, Norway