Conference Information
FSE 2026: ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
https://conf.researchr.org/home/fse-2026
Submission Date:
2025-09-11 Extended
Notification Date:
2025-11-21
Conference Date:
2026-07-05
Location:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Years:
34
CCF: a   CORE: a*   QUALIS: a1   Viewed: 1784299   Tracked: 123   Attend: 10

Call For Papers
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Artificial intelligence and machine learning for software engineering
    Autonomic computing
    Debugging and fault localization
    Dependability, safety, and reliability
    Distributed and collaborative software engineering
    Embedded software, safety-critical systems, and cyber-physical systems
    Empirical software engineering
    Human and social aspects of software engineering
    Human-computer interaction
    Mining software repositories
    Mobile development
    Model checking
    Model-driven engineering
    Parallel, distributed, and concurrent systems
    Performance engineering
    Program analysis
    Program comprehension
    Program repair
    Program synthesis
    Programming languages
    Recommendation systems
    Requirements engineering
    Search-based software engineering
    Services, components, and cloud
    Software architectures
    Software engineering education
    Software engineering for machine learning and artificial intelligence
    Software evolution
    Software processes
    Software security
    Software testing
    Software traceability
    Symbolic execution
    Tools and environments
Last updated by Dou Sun in 2025-09-10
Acceptance Ratio
YearSubmittedAcceptedAccepted(%)
2014993131.3%
20131003131%
2012902426.7%
20111062220.8%
20101693420.1%
20092173918%
20081523120.4%
20072516325.1%
20061252520%
20052013215.9%
20041692514.8%
20031684225%
20021281713.3%
20011372921.2%
2000921718.5%
19991412920.6%
19971942713.9%
19951502919.3%
Best Papers
YearBest Papers
2023Recommending Analogical APIs via Knowledge Graph Embedding
2023TransRacer: Function Dependence-Guided Transaction Race Detection for Smart Contracts
2023LExecutor: Learning-Guided Execution
2023A Four-Year Study of Student Contributions to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention
2023Benchmarking Robustness of AI-Enabled Multi-sensor Fusion Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
2023NeuRI: Diversifying DNN Generation via Inductive Rule Inference
2023Can Machine Learning Pipelines Be Better Configured?
2023An Automated Approach to Extracting Local Variables
2023A Highly Scalable, Hybrid, Cross-Platform Timing Analysis Framework Providing Accurate Differential Throughput Estimation via Instruction-Level Tracing
2023Mate! Are You Really Aware? An Explainability-Guided Testing Framework for Robustness of Malware Detectors
2023Speeding up SMT Solving via Compiler Optimization
2023Baldur: Whole-Proof Generation and Repair with Large Language Models
2022Using Nudges to Accelerate Code Reviews at Scale
2022Minerva: Browser API Fuzzing with Dynamic Mod-Ref Analysis
2022The Evolution of Type Annotations in Python: An Empirical Study
2022Online Testing of RESTful APIs: Promises and Challenges
2022Asynchronous Technical Interviews: Reducing the Effect of Supervised Think-Aloud on Communication Ability
2022SPINE: A Scalable Log Parser with Feedback Guidance
2022First Come First Served: The Impact of File Position on Code Review
2021A longitudinal analysis of bloated Java dependencies
2021AlloyMax: bringing maximum satisfaction to relational specifications
2021Bias in machine learning software: why? how? what to do?
2021Efficient Module-Level Dynamic Analysis for Dynamic Languages with Module Recontextualization
2021Probabilistic Delta Debugging
2021Semantic Bug Seeding: A Learning-Based Approach for Creating Realistic Bugs
2021SmartCommit: A Graph-Based Interactive Assistant for Activity-Oriented Commits
2021Vet: Identifying and Avoiding UI Exploration Tarpits
2020A Principled Approach to GraphQL Query Cost Analysis
2020Boosting fuzzer efficiency: an information theoretic perspective
2020Community expectations for research artifacts and evaluation processes
2020Deep learning library testing via effective model generation
2020Detecting numerical bugs in neural network architectures
2020On decomposing a deep neural network into modules
2020Testing self-adaptive software with probabilistic guarantees on performance metrics
2019The importance of accounting for real-world labelling when predicting software vulnerabilities
2019BIKER: a tool for Bi-information source based API method recommendation
2019FUDGE: fuzz driver generation at scale
2019Assessing the quality of the steps to reproduce in bug reports
2019A framework for writing trigger-action todo comments in executable format
2019A statistics-based performance testing methodology for cloud applications
2019Empirical review of Java program repair tools: a large-scale experiment on 2,141 bugs and 23,551 repair attempts
2019Generating automated and online test oracles for Simulink models with continuous and uncertain behaviors
2018Adversarial Symbolic Execution for Detecting Concurrency-Related Cache Timing Leaks
2018An Empirical Study on Crash Recovery Bugs in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
2018Data Race Detection on Compressed Traces
2018Oreo: Detection of Clones in the Twilight Zone
2018The impact of regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) in practice: an empirical study at the ecosystem scale
2018Do Android Taint Analysis Tools Keep Their Promises?
2017The Power of "Why" and "Why Not": Enriching Scenario Exploration with Provenance
2017Cooperative Kernels: GPU Multitasking for Blocking Algorithms
2017Understanding Misunderstandings in Source Code
2017Trade-Offs in Continuous Integration: Assurance, Security, and Flexibility
2017Discovering Relational Specifications
2017Automatically Diagnosing and Repairing Error Handling Bugs in C
2017Fairness Testing: Testing Software for Discrimination
2016Foraging and Navigations Fundamentally: Developers' Predictions of Value and Cost
2016Multi-Representational Security Analysis
2016Factors Influencing Code Review Processes in Industry
2016API Code Recommendation Using Statistical Learning from Fine-grained Changes
2016Proteus: Computing Disjunctive Loop Summary via Path Dependency Analysis
2016Why We Refactor? Confessions of GitHub Contributors
2016Detecting Sensitive Data Disclosure via Bi-directional Text Correlation Analysis
2015Optimizing energy consumption of GUIs in Android apps: a multi-objective approach
2015How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research
2015Effective Test Suites for Mixed Discrete-Continuous Stateflow Controllers
2015Modeling Readability to Improve Unit Tests
2015Measure It? Manage It? Ignore It? Software Practitioners and Technical Debt
2015A User-Guided Approach to Program Analysis
2015MultiSE: Multi-path Symbolic Execution using Value Summaries
2015Users Beware: Preference Inconsistencies Ahead
2014Selection and Presentation Practices for Code Example Summarization
2014Are Mutants a Valid Substitute for Real Faults in Software Testing?
2014AI: A Lightweight System for Tolerating Concurrency Bugs
2014Powering the Static Driver Verifier using Corral
2014Learning Natural Coding Conventions
2014Architecture Challenges for Internal Software Ecosystems: A Large-Scale Industry Case Study
2012Seeking the Ground Truth: A Retroactive Study on the Evolution and Migration of Software Libraries
2012Scalable Test Data Generation from Multidimensional Models
2012Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis
2011Proactive Detection of Collaboration Conflicts
2011How Do Fixes Become Bugs?
2011Proving programs robust
2010Creating and evolving developer documentation: understanding the decisions of open source contributors
2010Developer Fluency: Achieving True Mastery in Software Projects
2010Staged Concurrent Program Analysis
2009Asserting and checking determinism for multithreaded programs
2009Darwin: an approach for debugging evolving programs
2009Graph-based Mining of Multiple Object Usage Patterns
2008What makes a good bug report?
2008Efficient online monitoring of web-service SLAs
2007Automatic consistency assessment for query results in dynamic environments
2007Globally distributed software development project performance: an empirical analysis
2007Mining specifications of malicious behavior
2007Object and reference immutability using Java generics
2006Controlling factors in evaluating path-sensitive error detection techniques
2006SYNERGY: a new algorithm for property checking
2005Automatic Generation of Suggestions for Program Investigation
2005CUTE: a concolic unit testing engine for C
2005Context- and path-sensitive memory leak detection
2004Reasoning about partial goal satisfaction for requirements and design engineering
2004A classification system and analysis for aspect-oriented programs
2003Eliminating redundancies with a composition with adaptation meta-programming technique
2003A Family of Test Adequacy Criteria for Database-Driven Applications
2003Predicting problems caused by component upgrades
2002Isolating Cause-Effect Chains from Computer Programs
1984Generation Scavenging: A non-disruptive high performance storage reclamation algorithm
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