Part I: Introduction and Background
Chapter 1: Introduction
This chapter is the introduction of the PhD thesis 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 thesis.
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 thesis (Software Engineering, Software Reuse, Software Quality), and determine the information space of the area of Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse.