1. In this issue

   • James Bieman

   EditorialNotes 19 January 2007 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Guest editorial: Special section on Software Engineering Research and Practice 2005 (SERP’05)

   • Hassan Reza
   • Jon Whittle

   Editorial 18 January 2007 Pages: 3 - 5

3. Specifying and checking method call sequences of Java programs

   • Yoonsik Cheon
   • Ashaveena Perumandla

   OriginalPaper 23 January 2007 Pages: 7 - 25

   

4. Executable visual software modeling—the ZOOM approach

   • Xiaoping Jia
   • Adam Steele
   • Chris Jones

   OriginalPaper 17 January 2007 Pages: 27 - 51

   

5. Performance assessment of intelligent distributed systems through software performance ontology engineering (SPOE)

   • Isaac Lera
   • Pere P. Sancho
   • Günter Haring

   OriginalPaper 20 January 2007 Pages: 53 - 67

   

6. Assessing the quality of use case descriptions

   • Keith Thomas Phalp
   • Jonathan Vincent
   • Karl Cox

   OriginalPaper 17 January 2007 Pages: 69 - 97

   

7. Common coupling and pointer variables, with application to a Linux case study

   • Stephen R. Schach
   • Tokunbo O. S. Adeshiyan
   • Dror G. Feitelson

   OriginalPaper 17 January 2007 Pages: 99 - 113