ESEC/FSE 2007 Proceedings contents

After more than two years preparation and thanks to the work of a team of more than 60 people (not counting authors and external reviewers), the day has arrived and we are thrilled to welcome you to ESEC/FSE'07, the 6th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. We hope you will enjoy the rich and exciting program resulting from this team effort, which is conveyed in these two-volume Proceedings. The main volume includes the traditional research track, with 42 highest quality papers selected by the ESEC/FSE Program Committee among the record number of 251 submissions (with a resulting acceptance rate of 16.7%). The selection followed a two-phase process, according to which all accepted papers passed through two consecutive review stages, receiving at least three independent reviews, in several cases four or more. For drawing final decisions, the whole PC met in Minneapolis on May 25-27, discussing around one hundred papers. Among these, the PC also selected twenty nice-idea works for Poster exhibition, two of which have then been withdrawn by the authors, resulting in the eighteen short papers included in the companion volume.