Aims & Scope

Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering (PACMSE) is a premier Gold Open Access journal that publishes top-quality, original research on all aspects of software engineering, from requirements elicitation to quality assessment and from design to maintenance, evolution, and deployment. PACMSE covers a broad range of topics and methods that help conceive, create, and maintain better software, be it embedded, cloud-based, mobile and ubiquitous, or runs on conventional computers. The journal welcomes contributions on new methodologies, tools, theories, and models, as well as empirical studies and survey papers related to the wide spectrum of software engineering topics. We particularly welcome contributions that offer additional artifacts such as code, datasets, etc., in the light of reproducibility. Each issue of the journal comprises a curated selection of papers, which will be announced through publicized Calls for Papers. PACMSE adopts a publication model built around two rounds of reviewing and is committed to making high-quality peer-reviewed scientific research in software engineering free of restrictions on both access and use. The journal operates in close collaboration with the Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT).