Invited Contributions -- Esterel v7: From Verified Formal Specification to Efficient Industrial Designs -- Checking Memory Safety with Blast -- Web Services -- Analyzing Web Service Based Business Processes -- Automatic Conformance Testing of Web Services -- Graph Grammars and Graph Transformations -- Termination Criteria for Model Transformation -- Ensuring Structural Constraints in Graph-Based Models with Type Inheritance -- Modelling Parametric Contracts and the State Space of Composite Components by Graph Grammars -- Components -- Improving the Build Architecture of Legacy C/C++ Software Systems -- Using Scenarios to Predict the Reliability of Concurrent Component-Based Software Systems -- Augmenting UML Models for Composition Conflict Analysis -- A Tool to Automate Component Clustering and Identification -- Product Lines -- Managing Variability Using Heterogeneous Feature Variation Patterns -- Color-Blind Specifications for Transformations of Reactive Synchronous Programs -- Theory -- On the Correspondence Between Conformance Testing and Regular Inference -- Observational Purity and Encapsulation -- Towards a Theory on the Role of Ontologies in Software Engineering Problem Solving -- Code Understanding and Validation -- A Framework for Counterexample Generation and Exploration -- Using Annotations to Check Structural Properties of Classes -- Improving System Understanding via Interactive, Tailorable, Source Code Analysis -- Kaveri: Delivering the Indus Java Program Slicer to Eclipse -- The UML -- Non-local Choice and Beyond: Intricacies of MSC Choice Nodes -- Coverage Criteria for Testing of Object Interactions in Sequence Diagrams -- Tools for Secure Systems Development with UML: Security Analysis with ATPs -- Maintaining Life Perspectives During the Refinement of UML Class Structures -- Automatic Proofs and Provers -- Automated Compositional Proofs for Real-Time Systems -- Iterative Circular Coinduction for CoCasl in Isabelle/HOL -- Formalisation and Verification of Java Card Security Properties in Dynamic Logic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2005, held in Edinburgh, UK in April 2005 as part of ETAPS. The 25 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Web services, graph grammars and graph transformations, components, product lines, theory, code understanding and validation, UML, and automatic proofs and provers.