The proceedings of the March 2006 conference consists of 27 full papers and four short papers as well as a doctoral symposium with six presentations, six tool demonstrations, and three industry reports. The full papers explore new approaches to migrating systems to service-oriented architecture, system analysis and testing, dynamic analysis, system refactoring, design recovery, and system assessment. Topics include package patterns for visual architecture recovery, the IntensiVE tool suite for documenting structural source code regularities, realistic load testing of web applications, dynamic object process graphs, and search-based software maintenance. No subject index is provided. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
