ICSE welcomes submissions addressing topics across the full spectrum of Software Engineering, being inclusive of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research. Topics of interest include the following and are grouped into the following seven research areas.

Each submission will need to indicate one of these seven areas as the chosen area. Optionally, the authors can consider adding an additional area. A paper may be moved from the chosen area(s) to another focus area at the discretion of the program chairs. Program chairs will ultimately assign a paper to an area chair, considering the authors’ selection, the paper’s content, and other factors such as (if applicable) possible conflicts of interest.

AI and software engineering, Auto-coding

    SE for Machine learning systems
    Machine learning for SE tasks
    Recommender systems
    Autonomic systems and self-healing systems
    Program synthesis
    Program repair
    AI for DevOps
    Code generation from machine learning models

Analytics

    Mining software repositories, communication platforms, and novel software engineering data sources
    Apps and app store analysis
    Software ecosystems
    Configuration management
    Software visualization
    Data-driven user experience understanding and improvement
    Data driven decision making in software engineering

Dependability and Security

    Formal methods
    Model Checking
    Reliability and Safety
    Vulnerability detection to enhance software security
    System design to enhance software security
    Privacy, Robustness, Fairness: Checking and Enforcement
    Embedded and cyber-physical systems: modeling and validation

Evolution

    Evolution and maintenance
    API design and evolution
    Release engineering and DevOps
    Software reuse
    Refactoring and program differencing
    Program comprehension
    Reverse engineering
    Environments and software development tools
    Traceability to understand evolution

Human and Social aspects

    Human and organizational aspects of software engineering
    Interaction in programming environments and software engineering tools
    Distributed and collaborative software engineering
    Agile methods and software processes
    Software economics
    Community-based software engineering (e.g., open source, crowdsourcing)
    Ethics in software engineering
    Green and sustainable technologies
    Research on diversity, inclusion and social issues in software engineering

Requirements and modeling

    Requirements Engineering (incl. non-functional requirements)
    Design for quality, including privacy and security by design
    Feedback, user and requirements management
    Modelling and Model-Driven Engineering
    Software Architecture and Design
    Variability and product lines
    Systems and software traceability
    Software services and cloud-based systems

Testing and analysis

    Software testing
    Program analysis
    Debugging and fault localization
    Programming languages: developer-centric issues
    Automated test generation techniques such as search and symbolic execution
    Testing and analysis of non-functional properties
    GUI testing
    Mobile application testing