Chapter 1: Introduction

This chapter is the introduction of the book and mostly explains the state of the software industry today, the reasons for mining software engineering data, the relevant challenges, and the overall purpose of the book.

Chapter 2: Background and State-of-the-art

This is a background chapter that is used to define the main areas of interest for the book (Software Engineering, Software Reuse, Software Quality), and determine the information space of the area of Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse.