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This conference publication contains the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011), held at The Oread, in Lawrence, Kansas, USA, on November 6–12, 2011. The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of automated software engineering. The specific topics targeted by ASE 2011 included but were not limited to: Automated reasoning techniques, Component-based systems, Computer-supported cooperative work, Configuration management, Domain modelling and meta-modelling, Empirical software engineering, Human-computer interaction, Knowledge acquisition and management, Maintenance and evolution, Model-based software development, Model-driven engineering and model transformation, Modelling language semantics, Open systems development, Product line architectures, Program understanding, Program synthesis, Program transformation, Reengineering, Requirements engineering, Specification languages, Software architecture and design, Software visualization, Testing, verification, and validation, Tutoring, help, and documentation systems, and Software analysis.