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The papers appearing in these proceedings were subjected to a rigorous and high quality reviewing process. A total of 280 papers were submitted to the conference. Each paper was reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee and Expert Review Panel. The committee accepted 34 for presentation as talks and publication as full papers, and 31 for presentation as posters and publication as short papers. In addition to the technical papers, the conference includes a Doctoral Symposium and a Tool Demonstrations track. A total of 17 tool papers were selected by review for publication within the proceedings, while 6 doctoral symposium papers were accepted. The Doctoral Symposium is a one day forum that seeks to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications of automated software engineering. Specifically, the symposium aims to provide a setting whereby students receive feedback on their research and guidance on future directions from a broad group of advisors, foster a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, and contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events