Introduction to tool demonstrations

Automated software engineering is concerned with how to apply computation to automate or partially automate software engineering tasks to achieve significant improvements in quality and productivity. Tools therefore play a dominant role within automated software engineering. The tool demonstration session at the ASE??06 conference accounts for that by providing a forum to show and discuss new tool developments that highlight scientific contributions to the field of Automated Software Engineering. This year we have 9 tool demonstrations, each of which was reviewed by two reviewers. Each tool demonstration will have a time slot in the conference program, and also will be given a space at the conference site where conference attendees will be able to ask additional questions and see a personal demonstration. The demonstrations to be given this year bring together a diverse set of tools that provide support for main tasks of the software engineering life cycle. The tools presented range from tools supporting software generation and transformation, requirement engineering, software testing, software verification, and software modeling.