ESEC '91: 3rd European Software Engineering Conference, ESEC '91, Milan, Italy, October 21-24, 1991. Proceedings

The third European Software Engineering Conference follows

ESEC'87 and ESEC'89. This series of conferences was set up

by the European societies with the aim of providing an

international forum for researchers, developersand users of

software engineering technology. The need for a meeting

point to discuss new results and useful experiences was

clear from the large amount of high-quality European

software engineering researchin recent years, stimulated,

for example, through major European research programmes. The

22 papers in these proceedings were selected from 133 papers

submitted from 26 different countries. They cover a fairly

broad range of themes such as formal methods and practical

experiences with them, special techniques for real-time

systems, software evolution and re-engineering, software

engineering environments, and software metrics. Invited

papers by well-known experts address further important

areas: perspectives on configuration management, software

factories, user interfacedesign, computer security, and

technology transfer.