Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2009)

The Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances [ICSEA 2009] held between September 20-25, 2009 in Porto, Portugal, continued a series of events including a broad spectrum of software-related topics. The conference covered fundamentals on designing, implementing, testing, validating and maintaining various kinds of software. Several tracks were proposed to treat the topics from theory to practice, in terms of methodologies, design, implementation, testing, use cases, tools, and lessons learned. The conference topics covered advances in fundamentals for software development, advances in software testing, specialized software advanced applications, open source software, agile software techniques, software deployment and maintenance, software engineering techniques, metrics and formalisms, software performance, advanced design tools for developing software, software economics, adoption, and education, software security, privacy and safeness, advanced mechanisms for software development and advanced facilities for accessing software.