Abstract
This report summarizes the research works, in particular the full and short papers, presented at the 4th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010), held the 16th and 17th of September in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy. The program provided thirty full papers, twenty six short papers and three invited talks held by Bertrand Meyer, Steve Fraser and Carlo Ghezzi.