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.