This volume details one of a series of conferences set up by European societies with the aim of providing an international forum for researchers, developers and 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 research in recent years, stimulated, for example, through major European research programmes. The papers in these proceedings cover a broad range of themes, such as formal methods and practical experiences with them, special techniques for...