Method Chapters -- Empirical Research Methods in Software Engineering -- Challenges and Recommendations When Increasing the Realism of Controlled Software Engineering Experiments -- Empirical Studies in ESERNET -- Software Engineering Knowledge Repositories -- Using Empirical Studies during Software Courses -- Practical Experiences in the Design and Conduct of Surveys in Empirical Software Engineering -- Experience Chapters -- Post Mortem - An Assessment of Two Approaches -- Evaluating Checklist-Based and Use-Case-Driven Reading Techniques as Applied to Software Analysis and Design UML Artifacts -- Effectiveness of Code Reading and Functional Testing with Event-Driven Object-Oriented Software -- Experimentation with Usage-Based Reading -- Functional Testing, Structural Testing and Code Reading: What Fault Type Do They Each Detect? -- COTS Products Characterization: Proposal and Empirical Assessment -- Reuse Based Software Factory -- Appendix and Author Index -- Appendix - Glossary.