Guest editorial: special multi-issue on selected topics in automated software engineering

摘要

This special multi-issue of Automated Software Engineering reflects the editors' intention to pull together articles on a range of current topics from the field of automated software engineering. The editors feel the topics and research reported here form an interesting cross section of current work. While preliminary results on these research efforts have been published in the recent international conferences on automated software engineering, we have allowed time for the authors to significantly extend and complete their work, so each of these contributions is novel in its own right and has reached a level of maturity appropriate to an archival publication.