Aims and scope

Automated Software Engineering is an archival, peer-reviewed journal publishing research, tutorial papers, survey and accounts of significant industrial experience in the foundations, techniques, tools and applications of automated software engineering technology. This includes the study of techniques for constructing, understanding, adapting, and modelling software artifacts and processes. Both automatic systems and collaborative systems are within the scope of the journal, as are computational models of human software engineering activities. Knowledge representations and artificial intelligence techniques applicable to automated software engineering are of interest, as are formal techniques that support or provide theoretical foundations.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: specification and design representation schemes, both formal and informal; descriptions and models of the development process; tools and environments to support software development; cognition in software development, including studies of specifiers, designers and implementors, and cognitive properties of representation schemes, programming and programming languages; software development methods, analysis and validation; requirements elicitation, acquisition and formalization; system rationale; software quality and metrics; software reuse and adaptation; animation and execution of specifications and designs; domain modelling and analysis; software visualization; software object management; development of user interfaces; group and team work in software engineering; development of distributed, real-time, embedded and composite systems; systems integration; software evolution and maintenance; system testing; reverse engineering and program understanding; documentation and program explanation.

Automated Software Engineering is published bi-yearly by Springer, with worldwide distribution to individuals, industry and institutions. It includes reviews of books, software, conferences, and workshops.

Special Issue on NIER@ASE
Submission Date: 2025-02-28

The Special Issue for the NIER@ASE Track in the Automated Software Engineering Journal aims to provide a platform for showcasing forward-looking, innovative research in software engineering. This special issue invites selected papers from the NIER track at the ASE conference to submit extended versions for publication. Authors are encouraged to submit papers that present significant, original, and unpublished results within these areas. Submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process to maintain the journal’s high standards. We invite researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to contribute their cutting-edge research and insights to this special issue.

Topics

The special issue welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

    Requirements and Design:
        Requirements elicitation and management
        Traceability analysis
        Architecture and design
        Modeling and model-driven engineering
        Software product lines
        Component-based, service-oriented systems
        Object-oriented/Aspect-oriented
    Testing and Analysis:
        Regression, mutation, model-based testing
        Program analysis
        Program synthesis
        Program repairs
    Tools and Processes:
        Release engineering and DevOps
        Configuration and release management
        Agile processes
    Maintenance and Evolution:
        Debugging and fault-localization
        Refactoring and reengineering
        Reverse engineering
        Software reuse
        API design and management
    Formal Aspects of Software Engineering:
        Formal methods, validation, and verification
        Programming languages
        Specification languages, DSLs
    AI and Software Engineering:
        Search-based software engineering
        Recommender systems
        Autonomous and self-adapting systems
        AI for SE
        SE for AI
    Software Analytics:
        Mining software repositories
        Apps and app store analysis
    Human Aspects of Software Engineering:
        Program comprehension
        Systematic reviews, code inspection
        Human-computer interface
        Software visualization
        Crowd-based software engineering
        Distributed and collaborative software engineering
    Social Aspects of Software Engineering:
        Green and sustainable technologies
        Software economics
        Ethics in Software Engineering
    Dependability, Safety, and Reliability:
        Privacy and security
        Reliability
        Safety
        Performance

Deadline
Submission Deadline: Feb 2025

Guest Editors
John Businge and Denys Poshyvanyk