ESEM 2025: Call for Papers (Technical Track)

The Technical Papers track of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) 2025 features submissions that describe original, unpublished work in software engineering and software measurement, with a strong empirical foundation. Papers in this track should communicate fully developed research and related results, with a strong emphasis on the methodological aspects of the research and the assessment of the validity of the contributions.

Key Guidelines:

• Submissions must follow the standard IEEE template in conference mode (available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html or Overleaf at https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/ieee-official).
• Adhere to the Open Science Policy.
• Follow double-blind instructions, ensuring authors' identities are not revealed.

General Scope of Submissions

Submissions should not be under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere. Papers may address any aspect of software engineering but must tackle the problem from an empirical perspective using a rigorous empirical method. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods.
• Cross- and multi-disciplinary methods and studies.
• Formal experiments and quasi-experiments.
• Case studies, action research, ethnography, and field studies.
• Survey research.
• Simulation studies.
• Artifact studies.
• Data mining using statistical and machine learning approaches.
• Secondary and tertiary studies, including systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, and replication of empirical studies.
• Position papers relating methodology and contributions to established frameworks.

Topics of Interest

Topics commonly addressed using an empirical approach include:

• Evaluation and comparison of software models, tools, techniques, and practices.
• Modeling, measuring, and assessing product or process quality and productivity.
• Continuous software engineering.
• Software verification and validation, including analysis and testing.
• Engineering of software systems with machine learning components and data dependencies.
• Applications of software engineering to different system types and domains (e.g., IoT, Industry 4.0, Context-awareness systems, Cyber-physical systems).
• Human factors, teamwork, and behavioral aspects of software engineering.

We also welcome submissions on:

• Development, evaluation, and comparison of empirical approaches and methods.
• Infrastructure for conducting empirical studies.
• Techniques and tools for supporting empirical studies.
• Empirically-based decision making.
• Multi-disciplinary work.
• Transfer and application of empirical methods from other disciplines.
• Replication studies.
• Studies with negative findings.

Important Dates (AoE - UTC-12h)

• Abstract (mandatory): April 18th, 2025
• Submission: April 25th, 2025
• Notification: June 16th, 2025
• Camera-ready: June 27th, 2025

How to Submit

• Page Limit: 10 pages (excluding references) or 12 pages (including references).
• Submission Platform: EasyChair. Select the track “Technical Papers”.
• Format: PDF, formatted according to the standard IEEE template.
• Abstract: A structured abstract is required with the headings: Background, Aims, Method, Results, and Conclusions.
• Empirical Strategy: Papers must contain an explicit description of the empirical strategy used or investigated.
• Ethics: Comply with IEEE ethics guidelines. Submissions must not have been published elsewhere or be under review elsewhere simultaneously.
• Double-Blind Review: Authors must omit identities from the submission and use third-person references to their prior work.
• Review Process: Peer-reviewed by at least three experts, with a meta-review. Papers outside scope, exceeding page limits, or not following formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected.
• Registration Requirement: At least one author must register as a full (non-student) participant by the camera-ready submission deadline. Each accepted paper requires a separate full registration.

Open Science Policy

Authors are expected to include a data availability statement in their submissions, providing links to open data/replication packages or explaining why data cannot be disclosed.

• Recommendations: Share pre-prints on arXiv and replication packages in an archival repository (e.g., Zenodo).
• For qualitative studies, provide explanations of the study protocol, coding, and transcription schemas.
• For quantitative studies, include information on source code, dependencies, and data cleaning/training/evaluation steps.

Submission Link

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esem25

Program Committee

• Valentina Lenarduzzi (Chair), University of Oulu, Finland
• Fabio Q. B. da Silva (Chair), Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
• Silvia Abrahão, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Iftekhar Ahmed, University of California at Irvine, United States
• Domenico Amalfitano, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
• Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Claudia Ayala, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Ayşe Başar, Ryerson University, Canada
• Beatriz Bernárdez, University of Seville, Spain
• Stefan Biffl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Amiangshu Bosu, Wayne State University
• Ricardo Brito, Blekinge Institute of Technology
• Faiza A. Bukhsh, University of Twente
• Rebeca Campos Motta, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
• Roberta Capuano, University of L'Aquila, Italy
• Jeff Carver, University of Alabama, United States
• Tayana Conte, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
• Maya Daneva, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Oscar Dieste, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Michael Dorner, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Nasir Eisty, Boise State University, United States
• Matteo Esposito, University of Oulu, Finland
• Davide Falessi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Michael Felderer, German Aerospace Center (DLR) & University of Cologne, Germany
• Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Julian Frattini, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Davide Fucci, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Cigdem Gencel Ambrosini, Ankara Medipol University
• Marcela Fabiana Genero Bocco, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Görkem Giray, Independent Researcher, Turkey
• Carmine Gravino, University of Salerno
• Desmond Greer, Queens University, United Kingdom
• Peter Hegedus, University of Szeged, Hungary
• Andrea Herrmann, Herrmann & Ehrlich, Germany
• Guilherme Horta Travassos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Irum Inayat, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Ivan Machado
• Clemente Izurieta, Montana State University, United States
• Jing Jiang, Beihang University
• Mohamad Kassab, Boston University, USA
• Jil Klünder, University of Applied Sciences | FHDW Hannover, Germany
• Emna Ksontini, University of Michigan, United States
• Marco Kuhrmann, Reutlingen University, Germany
• Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Lucas Layman, University of North Carolina Wilmington, United States
• Meira Levy, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design, Art
• Peng Liang, Wuhan University, China
• Marcia Sampaio Lima, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas - UEA, Brazil
• Johan Linåker, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
• Yi Liu, University of North Carolina Wilmington, United States
• Alessandro Marchetto, Università di Trento, Italy
• Silverio Martínez-Fernández, UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain
• Tiago Massoni, UFCG
• Santiago Matalonga, University of the West of Scotland
• Patrícia G. F. Matsubara, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Brazil
• Paulo Sérgio Medeiros
• Paulo Meirelles, University of São Paulo
• Daniel Mendez, Blekinge Institute of Technology and fortiss, Sweden
• Andy Meneely, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
• Tim Menzies, North Carolina State University, United States
• Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
• Maurizio Morislo, Politecnico di Torino
• Nachiappan Nagappan, Meta Platforms, Inc., United States
• Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Walter Nakamura, Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil
• Maleknaz Nayebi, York University, Canada
• Claudia Negri-Ribalta, SnT, University of Luxembourg
• Condori-Fernandez Nelly, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Vania Neves, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil
• Phuong T. Nguyen, University of L’Aquila, Italy
• Mahmood Niazi, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
• Masao Ohira, Wakayama University, Japan
• Markku Oivo, DIMECC Ltd, Finland
• Monalessa P. Barcellos, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
• Maria Paasivaara
• Fabio Palomba, University of Salerno, Italy
• Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Kai Petersen, University of Applied Sciences Flensburg, Germany / Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Mikko Raatikainen
• Márcio Ribeiro, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
• Vincenzo Riccio, University of Udine, Italy
• Simone Romano, University of Salerno, Italy
• Marc Roper, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
• Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland
• Per Runeson, Lund University, Sweden
• Barbara Russo, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
• Daniela S. Cruzes, NTNU/VISMA, Norway
• Gleison Santos, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Unirio), Brazil
• Carolyn Seaman, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States
• Martín Solari, Universidad ORT Uruguay, Uruguay
• Qunying Song, University College London, United Kingdom
• Rodrigo Spinola, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
• Viktoria Stray, University of Oslo / SINTEF, Norway
• Davide Taibi, University of Oulu, Finland
• Matthias Tichy, Ulm University, Germany
• Marco Torchiano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Burak Turhan, University of Oulu, Finland
• Eray Tüzün, Bilkent University, Turkey
• Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Diego Vallespir, Universidad de la República - Pyxis, Uruguay
• Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy
• Davi Viana, Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil
• Hugo Villamizar, fortiss GmbH, Germany
• Junjie Wang, Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Shangwen Wang, National University of Defense Technology, China
• Yves Wautelet, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Marvin Wyrich, Saarland University, Germany
• Hongyu Zhang, Chongqing University, China
• Breno de França, UNICAMP, Brazil
• Rafael de Mello, UFRJ, Brazil
• Jose Luis de la Vara, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain