Modern software systems must be extremely flexible and easily adaptable to different user needs and environments. Such flexibility requirements are so important that it is indeed common practice to develop applications that can be updated, modified and adapted in the field, directly by the end- users. However, this flexibility also introduces relevant quality issues. Almost all computer users have had the unpleasant experience to watch their favorite applications fail and crash frequently after an update. These problems are so common that is sufficient browsing the Web to find millions of reports about failures observed after updates and incompatibilities caused by the interaction of a newly installed component with the existing components. Even worse each of these problems affected a population of thousands of users.

The impact of problems introduced by end-users (e.g., the installation of a new plug-in) can be dramatic because end-users can easily modify applications, like developers do, but end-users have neither the knowledge nor the skill of developers, and they cannot debug and fix the problems that they unintentionally introduce. It is thus necessary to timely develop novel solutions that can increase the reliability of the moderns systems, which can be extended and adapted by end-users, with the capability to automatically address problems that are unknown at development-time.