The Proceedings of the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2017) bring the papers selected and presented in the Rio de Janeiro-RJ. In this issue, the proceedings include 22 full papers. These papers were selected through a blind review. The event's program committee was coordinated by Sheila Reinehr (PUCPR), and Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR) who organized this volume. The articles in this volume were submitted on 05/29/2017, accepted for publication on 07/17/2017, with the final version submitted on 07/23/2017.