ACM SIGSOFT

Upcoming SIGSOFT Webinar: Working with Non-Traditional Subjects; Lessons Learned from Using VR to… The next ACM SIGSOFT Webinar will be held online at 10 AM ET, July 30, 2025. The Webinar will be moderated by Andrew Begel, Associate…

We're happy to announce a new #SIGSOFT #webinar:
💡 Title: Working with Non-Traditional Subjects; Lessons Learned from Using #VR to Help #Students with #ADHD Focus
👨‍🏫 Speaker: David Shepherd, Louisiana State Univ.
📆 Date: July 30, 10-11am ET
🚩 Participate online: sigsoft.medium.com/upcoming-sig...

🌍 The future of #icse is global!
🇧🇷 ICSE 2026 – Brazil #icse2026
🇮🇪 ICSE 2027 – Ireland #icse2027
🌺 ICSE 2028 – Hawaii #icse2028
We can't wait to see you there! Pack your ideas and your passport. 🧳✈️

Professor Mauro Pezzè has been awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award Professor Mauro Pezzè, a full professor at the Faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), has received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award. This annual award is pr...

Professor Mauro Pezzè has been awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award www.usi.ch/en/feeds/30984 @sigsoft.bsky.social @icseconf.bsky.social #icse2025

From Zero to One: Lessons Learned on Bringing African Students to International Conferences The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) is a milestone ICSE and will be forever cherished in my heart. For…

How can the @icseconf.bsky.social Software Engineering community be made more diverse and inclusive? Find out more about the Africa initiative, part of the Student Mentoring Workshop, in this blog post for ICSE 2024 - updates from #ICSE2025 coming soon!
yixue-zhao.medium.com/from-zero-to...

You are planning to organize a summer or winter school focused on certain aspects of software engineering? Then apply for financial support at ACM SIGSOFT until April 16, 2025!
💡Find more details in the ACM SIGSOFT Call for 2025–26 Summer/Winter School Proposals: sigsoft.medium.com/sigsoft-call...

Registration - ISSTA 2025 Welcome to the website of the ISSTA 2025 conference. The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) is the leading research symposium on software testing and analysi...

📢 Registrations + Travel/Childcare Grant Applications are open!

Early bird deadline: Apr 16

👉 Register: conf.researchr.org/attending/is...

@sigsoft.bsky.social will again support through travel and childcare grants!

Application deadline: Apr 2

👉 Apply: www2.sigsoft.org/caps/capsmain

In Memory of Barbora Buhnova By Letizia Jaccheri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

In Memory of Barbora Buhnova.
A blogpost by Letizia Jaccheri on this sad occasion:
sigsoft.medium.com/in-memory-of...

ACM has named 56 Distinguished Members for work that has advanced computing, fostered innovation across various fields and improved computer science education. The 2024 ACM Distinguished Members work at leading universities, corporations, and research institutions in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, India, Switzerland,...

The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of the worldwide ACM membership based on professional experience and significant achievements in computing beyond the norm. Find out more here: www.acm.org/media-center...

We congratulate all 56 professionals named ACM Distinguished Members and especially our active community members:
💎 Xiaopu Luo
💎 Jeffrey Voas
💎 Xin Xia
💎 Yingfei Xiong
💎 Lingming Zhang

ACM Distinguished Members are named for their impact in the field. Our warmest congratulations! 🎉

You are interested in hosting ICSE, the premier international forum for #SoftwareEngineering researchers and practitioners in 2029 (Outside Europe/North America)? Then contact the ICSE Steering Committee!
Find the call for letters of interest here: sigsoft.medium.com/call-for-let...

Happy and honored to receive the 2025 ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award! The citation refers to my work on interactive textbooks such as fuzzingbook.org and debuggingbook.org. Thanks to all who helped making this possible!

Congratulations to Liu Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications for receiving the Frank Anger Memorial Award

We are happy to hand over two Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards in 2025:
Congratulations to Jialun Cao, "Towards Automatic Testing and Fault Localization in Natural Language Processing Systems", awarded Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, now a Research Assistant Professor

We are happy to hand over two Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards in 2025:
Congratulations to Elizabeth Dinella, "Neural Inference of Program Specifications", awarded University of Pennsylvania, now an Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College

Congratulations to Jie Zhang, King's College London, for receiving the ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award "for pioneering contributions to software engineering for AI, significantly shaping and transforming the field of AI system testing."

Alberto Bacchelli and Christian Bird received the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award "For providing foundational understanding of modern code review, advancing the state of practice, and charting the course of research in code review through empirical investigations."

Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review Code review is a common software engineering practice employed both in open source and industrial contexts. Review today is less formal and more “lightweight” than the code inspections performed and s...

Congratulations to Alberto Bacchelli and Christian Bird for receiving the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for their ICSE 2013 paper:
"Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review". doi.org/10.1109/ICSE...

Congratulations to Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social, CISPA and Saarland University, for receiving the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
"For significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education."

Congratulations to Mauro Pezzè, USI Università della Svizzera Italiana Lugano (Switzerland), for receiving the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award
"For service to the software engineering community for three decades, and specifically for his recent contributions to TOSEM as Editor-in-Chief."

Congratulations to Martin Rinard, MIT, for receiving the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
"For fundamental contributions in pioneering the new fields of program repair and approximate computing."

🌟 We happily announce the ACM SIGSOFT Awards 2025 🌟
-> more details in the following posts.

🤝 Congratulations to all winners for their significant contributions and a big thanks to all colleagues who supported us in the selection committees!

ACM Names 2024 Fellows for Outstanding Contributions ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 55 Fellows for transformative contributions to computing science and technology. All the 2024 inductees are longstanding ACM Members whose accom...

Find a list of all 55 new ACM fellows here: www.ifipnews.org/acm-names-20...

Congratulations to the new ACM Fellows Abhik Roychoudhury, Satish Chandra, Marsha Chechik, Tim J. Menzies, Mira Mezini, Bashar A. Nuseibeh, and Benjamin G. Zorn

👏 Congratulations from #ACM #SIGSOFT to all 55 ACM Fellows named in 2024 for Outstanding Contributions and a special shout-out 📢 to the experts from our field: Abhik Roychoudhury, Satish Chandra, Marsha Chechik, Tim J. Menzies, Mira Mezini, Bashar A. Nuseibeh, and Benjamin G. Zorn

Our #conferences are international & their carbon footprint is significant. People fly all over the world to be together and we highly value that 🫶. But it comes at a cost. Thus, #ACM #SIGSOFT is starting a new initiative for conference #sustainability: sigsoft.medium.com/a-conference...

Recent #ACM #SIGSOFT updates from our Chair Marsha Chechik about

💎new & former SIGSOFT volunteers
💎thanks to organizers of large co-/sponsored conferences
💎ACM Open
💎a conference sustainability initiative
💎a heads up for a call for summer/winter schools

More: sigsoft.medium.com/letter-from-...

What is going on in your favorite software engineering community? Discover the latest #ACM #SIGSOFT insights in our blog! sigsoft.medium.com #SoftwareEngineering