ISSRE 2025: Call for Papers - Research Track

The 36th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) is the leading conference on software reliability, focusing on approaches, techniques, and tools for assessing, predicting, and improving the reliability, safety, and security of software systems.

ISSRE 2025 introduces Early Decisions. At the beginning of the author response period, authors will be notified with the following outcomes: "Accept", "Reject", or "Response Recommended".

The research track at ISSRE 2025 invites high-quality submissions of technical research papers describing original and unpublished results exploring new scientific ideas, contributing new evidence to established research directions, or reflecting on practical experience. ISSRE solicits submissions in three categories: (1) full research regular (REG) papers, (2) practical experience reports (PER), and (3) tools and artefacts (TAR) papers.

Paper Categories

Submissions can be made in one of the following categories:

• REG papers: 12 pages (including references).
• PER papers: 12 pages (including references).
• TAR papers: 6 - 10 pages (including references).

Papers that exceed the number of pages for that submission category will be rejected without review.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include development, analysis methods, and models throughout the software development lifecycle, including but not limited to:

• Dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability, survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting software reliability
• Reliability threats, i.e. faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures
• Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, fault forecasting)
• Software testing and formal methods
• Software fault localization, debugging, root-cause analysis
• Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability prediction and the interplay with safety/security
• Reliability of autonomous systems and (self-)adaptive systems
• Reliability of AI-based systems, AI for Reliability Engineering
• Reliability of Large Language/Foundational Model (LLM) and LLM for software reliability
• Reliability of software services and Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software
• Reliability of open-source software
• Reliability of software dealing with Big Data
• Reliability of green and sustainable systems
• Reliability of mobile systems
• Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g., Internet of Things, Cloud, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization, Blockchain, networks softwarization, 5G/6G, edge-to-cloud computing)
• Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces about software reliability
• Societal aspects of software reliability

Anonymizing Rules

Authors shall anonymize their papers, not identifying themselves either explicitly or by implication. Follow the guidelines provided in the call for papers document.

Formatting Rules

Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines as implemented by the following LaTeX/Word templates:

• LaTex Package (ZIP)
• Word Template (DOCX)

Each paper must be submitted as a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file. All fonts must be embedded.

Paper Submission

Papers are submitted via Easychair at the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2025

Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee through a double-blind reviewing process.

Review Process and Author Response

After the papers have been reviewed, the reviews will be made available to the authors to respond to any factual errors in the reviews.

NEW IN 2025: Early Decisions

ISSRE 2025 is introducing early decisions to reduce the burden of author responses.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: May 5th 2025 (AoE)
• Paper submission deadline: May 12th 2025 (AoE)
• Early decisions: June 30th, 2025 (AoE)
• Author rebuttal period: June 30th-July 6th, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification to authors: July 18th, 2025 (AoE)
• Camera ready papers: August 19th, 2025 (AoE)

Best Research Paper Award

ISSRE is pleased to announce the Best Research Paper Award, attributed every year to the best paper in the Research Track.

Conference Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS).

IEEE Conference Publishing Policies

All submissions must adhere to IEEE Conference Publishing Policies.

Special Issues

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal.