ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering — 2026
July 5-9, 2026
Concordia UniversityMontreal, Canada
Software Engineering Software Testing Program Analysis
Important Dates
| Submission deadline | September 11, 2025 |
| Notification of acceptance | December 22, 2025 |
The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is a leading conference for software engineering research. It brings together academics, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss advances in software development, analysis, maintenance, and reliability.
Attendees can expect sessions covering formal methods, software testing, program analysis, AI in software engineering, and practical applications that bridge research and practice. FSE provides a platform for presenting rigorous research while fostering collaboration between researchers and software professionals.
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Venue
Concordia University
1455 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada
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Autonomous System Quality Assurance with Digital Twins
Explores quality assurance, testing, and predictive approaches for autonomous systems using digital twin technology.
Causal Methods in Software Engineering
Investigates how causal reasoning and causal inference methods can improve software engineering research and practice.
DevOps for Sustainability
Examines how DevOps practices and tooling can be adapted to reduce the environmental footprint of software development and deployment.
Data Intensive Software Engineering
Covers software engineering challenges specific to systems that process, store, or analyze large volumes of data.
Software Engineering for Games
Addresses software engineering methods, tools, and practices tailored to the development of games and interactive entertainment.
Human-Centered AI for Software Engineering
Explores how human-centered AI techniques can support software developers in tasks such as code generation, review, and debugging.
Intersectionality and Software Engineering
Applies intersectionality frameworks to study how overlapping social identities affect participation, inclusion, and outcomes in software engineering communities.
Large Language Model Supply Chain Analysis
Investigates security, provenance, and trust issues in the supply chain of large language models, including training data, model weights, and...
Software Engineering for Trustworthy LLMs
Covers software engineering methods for building reliable, safe, and auditable systems that incorporate large language models.
Quantum Software Engineering
Advances software engineering methods and tools for developing, testing, and maintaining quantum software systems.
Responsible Software Engineering
Examines ethical, social, and governance dimensions of software engineering practice and how to build responsibility into development processes.
Software Engineering for Autonomous Driving Systems
Addresses software engineering challenges unique to autonomous driving, including safety verification, testing under uncertainty, and system integration.
Software Engineering for Engineering Simulations
Focuses on software quality, architecture, and tooling for large-scale scientific and engineering simulation software.
Software Engineering for the GenAI Transformation
Explores how software engineering practices must evolve as generative AI tools become central to the development lifecycle.
Software Engineering for Generative Art
Brings together software engineering and creative computing communities to study tools and methods for building systems that generate art, music,...
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