Special Issues

Open calls for papers

• Software Engineering and COVID-19 (no deadline, submit any time)
• Advances in Search-Based Software Engineering (extended to May 16, 2021)
• Software Performance (May 14, 2021)
• Software Testing in the Machine Learning Era (December 18, 2021)
• Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) (January 15, 2022)

Published Special Issues

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

To be published / Upcoming

• Machine Learning Techniques for Software Quality Evaluation
• 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)
• SPLC 2019: Configurable Systems (January 15, 2020)

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