ASE 2025: Call for Papers

The IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Conference is the premier research forum for automated software engineering. ASE 2025 will be held in Seoul, South Korea from November 16-20, 2025.

ASE 2025 invites high-quality contributions describing significant, original, and unpublished results. It brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss foundations, techniques, and tools for automating the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems.

New This Year

• PC Self-nomination: Self-nominations to serve on the Program Committee are invited. Complete the PC self-nomination form by January 10th. https://forms.gle/uPZCVDeH4WzwvtmF6
• Major Revisions: Reviewers may request changes requiring up to four weeks to accommodate. Reviewers specify concrete and actionable revision criteria and agree to accept the paper in principle if these criteria are met.
• Auto-bidding: The Toronto Paper Matching System (TPMS) will be leveraged to streamline and automate the paper bidding and assignment process.
• Rapid Response Reviewers: A small percentage of interested PC members are invited to become Rapid Response Reviewers, committing to review up to two papers in a shorter timeframe at the end of the reviewing period.

Submission Information

• Submission Link: https://ase25.hotcrp.com/
• Template: \\documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran}
• Page Limit: 10 pages (excluding references) + 2 pages (only references).
• Artifact: Provide a link to an anonymous artifact, or explain why not.
• Categories: Choose a Research Area and a Paper Type (Technical/Experience)
• Compliance: Check compliance (double-blind, plagiarism, human studies, etc.)

Research Areas

ASE welcomes submissions addressing topics across the full spectrum of Automated Software Engineering. Topics of interest include:

• Requirements and Design
  • Requirements elicitation and management, traceability analysis
  • Software architecture and design
  • Modeling and model-driven engineering
  • Software product lines
  • Component-based or service-oriented systems
  • Object-oriented or aspect-oriented systems
• Testing and Analysis
  • Regression, mutation, and model-based testing
  • System, unit, and integration testing
  • Black-, grey-, and white-box fuzzing
  • Automated program repair and synthesis
  • Static and dynamic analysis
  • Empirical program analysis
• Maintenance and Evolution
  • Debugging and fault-localization
  • Refactoring and reengineering
  • Reverse engineering
  • Software reuse
  • API design and management
• Human and Social Aspects
  • Software engineering processes (e.g., agile, DevOps)
  • Green and sustainable technologies
  • Software engineering ethics and values
  • Software economics
  • Systematic code review and inspection
  • Program comprehension and visualization
  • Crowd-based and collaborative software engineering
  • Human-computer interface
• AI and Software Engineering
  • Autonomous and self-adapting systems
  • Search-based software engineering
  • Recommender systems
  • AI4SE
  • SE4AI
• Software Analytics
  • Mining software repositories
  • Analysis of mobile apps, app stores
  • Data-driven user experience understanding and improvement
  • Data-driven decision making in software engineering
  • Software metrics (and measurements)
• Formal Aspects of Software Engineering
  • Formal methods and model checking
  • Programming languages
  • Domain-specific or specification languages
  • Software validation and verification
• Security and Other Non-Functional Properties
  • Security and privacy
  • Dependability and safety
  • Reliability and availability
  • Performance

Submission Categories

• Technical Research Papers: Describe innovative research in automating software development or automating support to users engaged in software development activities.
• Experience Papers: Describe a significant experience in applying automated software engineering technology.

Review Criteria

Each Technical Research paper will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Significance
• Novelty
• Soundness

Each Experience paper will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Importance and Scope
• Insights and Evidence
• Perspective

Additionally, the following criteria apply for both submission categories:

• Verifiability
• Presentation

Originality

Papers submitted to ASE 2025 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere when being considered for ASE 2025. Authors should be aware of the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ.

Double Anonymous Review Process

The ASE 2025 Research Track will employ a double-anonymous review process. Authors must make every effort to honor the double-anonymous review process.

Artifact Availability and Supplementary Material

Authors are encouraged to disclose (anonymized and curated) data to increase reproducibility and replicability.

ACM Policy on Research Involving Humans

If work reported in the paper involves human subjects, authors will be required to affirm compliance with the ACM Policy on Research Involving Humans.
https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects

Formatting and Submission Guidelines

Abstracts and papers must be submitted electronically through the ASE 2025 HotCRP submission site: https://ase25.hotcrp.com/.

All submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTeX users must use \\documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option).

Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for the main text, including all figures, tables, appendices, etc. Up to two additional pages containing ONLY references are permitted. Submissions that do not adhere to these limits or that violate the formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected without review.

Experience papers should contain the phrase “experience paper” prominently in the abstract, to ensure that they are evaluated appropriately.

Accepted Papers

Accepted papers will be permitted an additional page of content to allow authors to incorporate review feedback. The page limit for published papers will therefore be 11 pages (including all figures, tables, appendices) plus 2 pages containing only references. Note that all submitted papers must conform to the 10+2 requirement, described above.

We strongly encourage authors of accepted papers to archive the research artifacts associated with their ASE papers, including code and data, in a repository with a DOI. Popular open-access repositories include but are not limited to, Figshare and Zenodo.

If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for ASE 2025 and present the paper.

Important Dates (AoE, UTC-12h)

• Paper Submission: Fri 30 May 2025
• Author Response: Tue 22 - Fri 25 Jul 2025
• Initial Notification: Thu 14 Aug 2025
• Revised Manuscript Submission (for major revisions only): Thu 11 Sep 2025
• Notification for Major Revisions: Thu 25 Sep 2025
• Camera Ready (all papers): Fri 3 Oct 2025

Contact

If you have any further questions, please contact the PC chairs at ase25.conf@gmail.com.