Special Issues

Open calls for papers

• Human-Centered AI for Software Engineering (submit by December 10, 2025)
• Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) (submit by September 30, 2025)
• Empirical Studies for Quantum Software Engineering (submit by September 15, 2025)
• Advancing Software Engineering with Large Language Models (submit by September 5, 2025)
• When Software Security Meets Large Language Models: Opportunities and Challenges (submit by August 15, 2025)
• Replications and Negative Results (RENE) (submit by June 20, 2025)
• Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering (PROMISE) (submit by April 12, 2025)
• Emerging Concerns in Technical Debt Management (submit by June 9, 2025)

Published Special Issues

Below is (a currently incomplete) list of published special issues (focus is on the ones published in 2014 or later):

Old / Deadline passed

• Software Engineering and AI for Data Quality (submit by December 1, 2024)
• Security Testing for Complex Software Systems (SECUTE) (submit by October 31, 2024 November 30, 2024)
• Trends in Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering (submit by April 14, 2024 May 3rd, 2024)
• Innovations in Software System Testing with Deep Learning (submit by January 31, 2024 February 28, 2024)
• Machine Learning Techniques for Software Quality Evaluation (submit by March 30, 2023 April 13, 2023)
• Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering (PROMISE) (submit by April 15, 2023)
• Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) (submit by December 15, 2023 December 30, 2023)
• Software Engineering and COVID-19 (no deadline, submit any time)
• Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) (submit by September 30, 2024)
• Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering (PROMISE) (submit by April 15, 2023)
• Machine Learning Techniques for Software Quality Evaluation (submit by March 30, 2023 April 13, 2023)
• Equitable Data and Technology
• Code Legibility, Readability, and Understandability
• Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering
• Software Testing in the Machine Learning Era
• Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP)
• Machine Learning Techniques for Software Quality Evaluation
• Program Comprehension
• Advances in Search-Based Software Engineering
• Software Performance
• Machine Learning Techniques for Software Quality Evaluation 2020
• Inventing the Next Generation of Software Analytics
• Software Product Lines and Variability-rich Systems
• Collective Knowledge in Software Engineering
• Recommendation Systems for SE
• Software Engineering for Mobile Applications
• SANER 2018
• SE in the age of AI
• NASAC 2019: Intelligent Software Engineering (Deadline: September 30, 2019)
• Software Engineering and COVID-19

2020

• SPLC 2019: Configurable Systems

2019

• ICSME 2017
• SCAM 2017
• PROMISE 2017
• MSR 2017
• ICPC 2017
• SANER 2017

2018

• REFSQ 2017
• Automatic Software Repair
• ICSME 2016
• SCAM 2016
• MSR 2016

2017

• Success and failure in software engineering
• Negative results in software engineering
• Empirical studies in software and systems traceability
• SSBSE 2015

2016

• SSBSE 2014
• MSR 2014
• Empirical evidence on software product line engineering
• Software reverse engineering
• Mining software repositories

2015

• ICSM 2013
• MSR 2013
• ICSM 2012

2014

• Resolving the challenges of time and distance (GSE)
• Program comprehension
• Seach-based software sngineering
• Replications of software engineering experiments