Call for Papers - FSE 2025

We invite you to contribute to the FSE 2025 program by submitting to one or more tracks. Each track of FSE 2025 has its own submission site and submission deadlines. Please refer to each page for the details.

FSE 2025 Tracks

• Research Papers: The latest innovations in theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research, from both industry and academia. Submission Link: https://fse2025.hotcrp.com
• Industry Papers: A venue for outstanding real-world application of software engineering techniques, tools, methods, processes, and practices. Submission Link: https://fse2025-industry.hotcrp.com
• Ideas, Visions and Reflections Papers: The goal of this track is to present radical, innovative, thought-provoking new ideas, and research directions, as well as lessons learned from the past. Submission Link: https://fse2025-ivr.hotcrp.com
• Journal First: Presentations of papers published recently in prestigious software engineering journals. Submission Link: https://fse2025-journal-first.hotcrp.com
• Student Research Competition: A great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, present their research results to conference attendees, and compete for prizes. Submission Link: http://fse2025-src.hotcrp.com
• Demonstrations: A highly interactive venue for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent advances, experiences, and challenges in the field of software engineering supported by live presentations of new research tools, data, and other artifacts. Submission Link: https://fse2025-demo.hotcrp.com
• Artifacts: The artifact evaluation track aims to review, promote, share, and catalog the research artifacts of accepted software engineering papers. Submission Link: https://fse2025-artifacts.hotcrp.com
• Doctoral Symposium: Brings doctoral students working in software engineering together, allowing them to present and discuss their research goals, methods, and preliminary results in a constructive and international atmosphere. Submission Link: https://isstafse2025-ds.hotcrp.com/
• Workshops: Workshops are an interactive forum for exchanging views, advancing ideas, and discussing preliminary results in various areas of software engineering research and applications. Submission Link: https://fse25workshops.hotcrp.com
• Software Engineering Education: Venue for sharing of research and innovation in software engineering education. Submission Link: https://fse2025-seet.hotcrp.com
• Tutorials: An opportunity for conference participants to gain new insights, knowledge, and skills in a broad range of areas of software engineering. Submission Link: https://fse2025-tutorials.hotcrp.com

Submission Policies

• Papers submitted for consideration to FSE should not have been already published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the reviewing period.
• Authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions.
• To prevent double submissions, the chairs might compare submissions with related conferences that have overlapping review periods. The double submission restriction applies only to refereed journals and conferences, not to unrefereed forums (e.g. arXiv.org).
• To check for plagiarism issues, the chairs might use external plagiarism detection software.
• All publications are subject to the ACM Author Representations policy.
• All authors and co-authors are subject to ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.
• Possible violations to any of the above policies will be reported to ACM for further investigation.

Submission Format

• All submissions must be in English and in PDF format.
• Papers must not exceed the page limits that are listed for each call for papers. Refer to each track's submission page for specific limits.
• Authors should use the official "ACM Primary Article Template", available from the ACM Proceedings Template page.
• The resulting format should be two-columns.
• For LaTeX users, the following code can be used at the start of the document:

  % For main proceedings (research track)
  \documentclass[sigconf,screen]{acmart}
  % For companion proceedings (all other tracks)
  \acmBooktitle{Companion Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE '25), June 23--27, 2025, Trondheim, Norway}
  

Double-Anonymous Review Process

• The Research Papers Track employs a double-anonymous review process. Please check the call for papers for other tracks to see if they also use this process.
• Authors must ensure their submissions do not reveal their identities:
  • Leave out author names and affiliations from the body of the submission.
  • Cite related work by themselves in the third person (e.g., "the prior work of XYZ" as opposed to "our prior work").
  • Do not include URLs to author-revealing sites (tools, datasets). Replication packages are encouraged and details can be found in the FSE Open Science Policy.
  • Anonymize author-revealing company names; use general characteristics of organizations instead.
  • Ensure paper acknowledgements do not reveal the origin of the work.
• Papers that do not comply with the double-anonymous review process (for tracks that employ it) may be desk-rejected.
• Authors are advised to postpone publishing submitted work on arXiv or similar sites until after the notification of acceptance.

Important Dates

• Workshops Proposals Submission: Tue 15 Oct 2024
• Research Papers: Paper Registration: Thu 5 Sep 2024
• Research Papers: Full Paper Submission: Thu 12 Sep 2024
• Ideas, Visions and Reflections Papers: Submission Deadline: Thu 16 Jan 2025
• Demonstrations: Submission Deadline: Mon 13 Jan 2025
• Industry Papers: Submission Deadline: Wed 22 Jan 2025
• Software Engineering Education: Submission Deadline: Fri 24 Jan 2025
• Tutorials: Submission Deadline: Mon 3 Feb 2025
• Student Research Competition: Submission Deadline: Fri 14 Feb 2025
• Doctoral Symposium: Submission Deadline: Mon 24 Feb 2025
• Posters: Submission Deadline: Fri 28 Feb 2025
• 2030 Software Engineering: Submission Deadline: Fri 28 Feb 2025
• PROMISE: Submissions Due: Fri 28 Feb 2025
• Internetware Research Track: First Cycle Submission Deadline: Sat 1 Mar 2025
• Journal First: Submission deadline: Tue 4 Mar 2025
• AI IDE: Submission Deadline: Tue 4 Mar 2025
• Internetware Tool Demonstration Track: First Cycle Submission Deadline: Mon 24 Mar 2025
• Internetware Tool Demonstration Track: Second Cycle Submission Deadline: Sat 5 Apr 2025
• Internetware New Idea Track: Submissions Deadline: Sat 5 Apr 2025
• Research Papers: Initial Notification: Tue 14 Jan 2025
• Ideas, Visions and Reflections: Author notification: Fri 14 Mar 2025
• Demonstrations: Author notification: Mon 10 Mar 2025
• Industry Papers: Author notification: Tue 25 Mar 2025
• Software Engineering Education: Author notification: Tue 25 Mar 2025
• PROMISE: Author notification: Mon 24 Mar 2025
• Student Research Competition: Notification: Mon 24 Mar 2025
• Doctoral Symposium: Notification: Thu 10 Apr 2025
• Posters: Acceptance notification: Thu 10 Apr 2025
• AI IDE: Notification: Thu 10 Apr 2025
• Student Volunteers: Notification: Thu 10 Apr 2025
• Tutorials: Acceptance: Mon 3 Feb 2025
• Research Papers: Camera ready (directly accepted): Tue 11 Feb 2025
• Tutorials: Camera-ready deadline: Mon 14 Apr 2025
• Posters: Camera-ready deadline: Thu 24 Apr 2025
• Ideas, Visions and Reflections: Camera-ready deadline: Thu 24 Apr 2025
• Demonstrations: Camera-ready deadline: Thu 24 Apr 2025
• Student Research Competition: Camera-ready version: Thu 24 Apr 2025
• Doctoral Symposium: Camera-ready deadline: Thu 24 Apr 2025
• Software Engineering Education: Camera-Ready Deadline Extended: Thu 24 Apr 2025
• Industry Papers: Camera-ready deadline: Mon 21 Apr 2025
• Research Papers: Camera ready (major revisions): Thu 24 Apr 2025
• Internetware Research Track: Camera-Ready Version: Sat 10 May 2025
• Internetware New Idea Track: Camera Ready: Sat 10 May 2025
• Internetware Tool Demonstration Track: Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: Sat 10 May 2025

Conference Dates: Mon 23 - Fri 27 June 2025