📢 ESEM 2026 – Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) Track

A forum for practitioners & researchers to share real-world experiences with SE processes, methods, and tools. Submissions are evaluated for relevance and practical impact.

📝 Abstract: 20 May 2026
📄 Paper: 27 May 2026
📬 Notification: 8 July 2026
📦 Camera-ready: 5 Aug 2026

🔗 https://conf.researchr.org/track/eseiw-2026/eseiw-2026-esem---seip-track

#ESEM2026 #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering #CFP

📢 Update for ESEM 2026 authors

Starting this year, ESEM introduces a new publication model with DAGSTUHL LIPIcs proceedings.

This change aims to improve openness, accessibility, and long-term availability of research results.

If you are planning to submit, please check the FAQ for details on the new process.

🔗 https://conf.researchr.org/info/eseiw-2026/dagstuhl-lipics---faq-for-authors

#ESEM2026 #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering

📢 ESEM 2026 – Emerging Results, Vision & Reflection Papers Track

Share early ideas, future visions, or reflections on influential studies in empirical software engineering.

📝 Abstract: 22 May 2026
📄 Paper: 29 May 2026
📬 Notification: 10 July 2026
📦 Camera-ready: 5 Aug 2026

More details: https://conf.researchr.org/track/eseiw-2026/eseiw-2026-emerging-results-and-vision-track

#ESEM2026 #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering #CFP

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📢 ESEM 2026 – Registered Reports Track

The RR track supports rigorous empirical software engineering research by reviewing study motivation, design, and planned analyses before data collection.

📝 Initial report: 13 April 2026
📋 PC reviews available: 4 May 2026
✏️ Author response : 18 May 2026
📬 Stage 1 notification: 8 June 2026
📄 arXiv submission (mandatory): 13 July 2026

More details: https://conf.researchr.org/track/eseiw-2026/eseiw-2026-esem---registered-reports-track

#ESEM2026 #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering #CFP

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📢 ESEM 2026 – Technical Track (Munich, 4–9 Oct 2026 🇩🇪)

We invite high-quality empirical research on software engineering and measurement.

📝 Abstract (mandatory): 22 April 2026
📄 Paper submission: 29 April 2026
💬 Author clarification (optional): 16–23 June 2026
📬 Notification: 30 June 2026
📦 Camera-ready: 5 August 2026

More details: https://conf.researchr.org/track/eseiw-2026/eseiw-2026-esem---technical-track

#ESEM2026 #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering #CFP

Munich, October 2026 🇩🇪

ESEIW 2026 & ESEM 2026 are coming — and submission preparation should start now!

Full papers, emerging results and vision papers, registered reports, industry papers, journal-first, doctoral symposium — detailed track info is available on the joint website.

Don’t miss the first deadlines 🎯

🔗 https://conf.researchr.org/home/eseiw-2026

#ESEIW2026 #ESEM2026 #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering

This is the official Mastodon account of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) and Empirical Software Engineering International Week (ESEIW).

We’re excited to join the Mastodon community and look forward to connecting with researchers, practitioners, and friends from around the world.

Stay tuned for CFP announcements, deadlines, and conference updates!

#ESEM #ESEIW #ESEM2026 #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering

#introductions I'm Stephan, originally an English Philologist and Linguist, now a #SoftwareEngineering researcher at the German Aerospace Center's (https://social.bund.de/@dlr) Institute of Software Technology in #Berlin.

I'm a 2018 Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute (https://mastodon.social/@SoftwareSaved), founder and lead of the #CitationFileFormat (https://citation-file-format.github.io/) and co-founder of de-RSE (https://mastodon.social/@de_rse).

I work on #ResearchSoftware, #SoftwareCitation, #SoftwarePublication, #SoftwareIntelligence, #SoftwareSustainability, #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering.

“Larger pull requests lead to longer delays which lead to more time to make changes which leads to larger pull requests.”

Claim by @kentbeck that can be empirically tested with repository mining research. Not aware of papers that look at such reinforcement loops.

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/thinking-about-code-review

@seresearchers #codereview #PullRequests #MiningSoftwareRepositories #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering