ESEM'25 Technical Papers: ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement 2025
Honolulu, HI, United States
International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement 2025
Date: September 29-October 3, 2025
Location: Honolulu, HI, United States
About the Symposium
The ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) is the premier conference for presenting research results related to empirical software engineering. ESEM provides a stimulating forum where researchers and practitioners can present and discuss recent research results on a wide range of topics, in addition to exchanging ideas, experiences, and challenging problems. The International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) technical papers track features submissions that describe original, unpublished work in software engineering and software measurement, with a strong empirical foundation.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. Strong emphasis should be given to the methodological aspects of the research and the assessment of the validity of the contributions.
Important Dates
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Abstract (mandatory) | April 18, 2025 |
| Submission | April 25, 2025 |
| Notification | June 6, 2025 |
| Camera-ready | June 27, 2025 |
Topics Commonly Addressed Using an Empirical Approach
- 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 which include machine learning components and data dependencies
- Applications of software engineering to different types of systems and domains (e.g. IoT, Industry 4.0, Context-awareness systems, Cyber-physical systems)
- Human factors, teamwork, and behavioral aspects of software engineering
Research Meta-topics
- 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
Additional Submissions
- Demonstrate multi-disciplinary work
- Transfer and apply empirical methods from other disciplines
- Replication studies
- Studies with negative findings
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should not be under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere. In addition to the specific scope of this track, submissions may address any aspect of software engineering but must tackle the problem from an empirical perspective and using a rigorous empirical method, including:
- 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
- Systematic literature reviews and rapid reviews
- Meta-analyses and qualitative, quantitative or structured syntheses of studies
- Replication of empirical studies and families of studies
Papers should be positioned in terms of research methodology and contribution in relation to established frameworks.
How to Submit
Submissions to this track are limited to 10 pages excluding references and 12 pages with references and must be submitted through EasyChair by selecting the track “Technical Papers.”
All submissions must be written in English and must be submitted via EasyChair in PDF format, and they must be formatted according to the standard IEEE template in conference mode (which can be found at IEEE Templates).
Open Science Policy
Openness in science is key to fostering progress via transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. While all submissions will undergo the same review process independent of whether or not they disclose their tools, data, and code, we expect authors to include a data availability statement in their submissions that either provides links to the open data/replication package or that explains why data cannot be disclosed (e.g., due to the sensitivity of the data or due to existing non-disclosure agreements). We recommend adding the data availability statement in the submission at the end of the introduction section explaining whether and where the data and related material is available and under which conditions the data/material can be accessed. For submissions based on open data sources, the publication of any cleaned or filtered data is mandatory.
Contact Information
For questions about submissions, please contact the Program Co-chairs through the conference website: ESEM 2025.
Organizing Committee
- Daniel Port - General Chair, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
- Valentina Lenarduzzi - Program Chair, University of Oulu, Finland
- Fabio Q. B. da Silva - Program Chair, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
- Clemente Izurieta - ISERN Chair, Montana State University, United States
- Maria Paasivaara - ISERN Chair, LUT University, Finland & Aalto University, Finland
- Marcus Ciolkowski - Industry, Government, and Community Chair, QAware, Germany
- Andrea Janes - Industry, Government, and Community Chair, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Apostolos Ampatzoglou - Emerging Results and Vision Papers Chair, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Elisa Yumi Nakagawa - Emerging Results and Vision Papers Chair, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Carolyn Seaman - Doctoral Symposium Chair, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States
- Tim Menzies - Doctoral Symposium Chair, North Carolina State University, United States
- Marco Kuhrmann - Journal First Chair, Reutlingen University, Germany
- Mansooreh Zahedi - Journal First Chair, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Eman Abdullah AlOmar - Open Science Chair, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
- Martín Solari - Open Science Chair, Universidad ORT Uruguay, Uruguay
- Marcela Fabiana Genero Bocco - Research Projects Chair, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Sérgio Soares - Research Projects Chair, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
- Sandro Morasca - Registered Reports Chair, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
- Oscar Pastor - Registered Reports Chair, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Rick Kazman - Financial Chair, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
- Nyyti Saarimäki - Proceeding Chair, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Sonja Hyrynsalmi - Publicity Chair, LUT University, Finland
- Matteo Esposito - Web Chair, University of Oulu, Finland