Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evolution of software composition mechanisms : a survey / Carlo Ghezzi and Filippo Pacifici -- Compositionality in software product lines / Christian Prehofer, Jilles van Gurp, and Jan Bosch -- Teaching design pattersn / Bernd Br�ugge and Timo Wolf -- On the impact of AOSE in service-oriented computing / Laura Bocchi ... [et al.] -- Testing object-oriented software / Leonardo Mariani and Mauro Pezz�e -- The UML and formal methods : a case study / Carlo Montangero -- Modern web application development / Mehdi Jazayeri, C�edric Mesnage, and Jeffrey Rose -- Migrating to web services / Harry M. Sneed -- Software evolution analysis and visualization / Martin Pinzger, Harald Gall, and Michael Fischer -- Empirical experimentation in software engineering / Giuseppe Visaggio -- Foundations of agile methods / Alberto Sillitti and Giancarlo Succi.