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| Formation | 1976 |
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| Products | Software development |
Key people | Executive Committee |
| Website | www.sigsoft.org |
The Association for Computing Machinery's [1] Special Interest Group on Software Engineering [2] [3] provides a forum for computing professionals from industry, government and academia to examine principles, practices, and new research results in software engineering.
SIGSOFT was officially formed in 1976 as the Special Interest Committee on Software Engineering (SICSOFT), and converted to SIGSOFT in 1977.
SIGSOFT focuses on issues related to all aspects of software development and maintenance, with emphasis on requirements, specification and design, software architecture, validation, verification, debugging, software safety, software processes, software management, measurement, user interfaces, configuration management, software engineering environments, and CASE tools.
SIGSOFT (co-)sponsors conferences and symposia including the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), [4] the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) [5] [6] [7] and other events. [8]
SIGSOFT publishes the informal bimonthly newsletter Software Engineering Notes (SEN) newsletter [9] [10] with papers, reports and other material related to the cost-effective, timely development and maintenance of high-quality software.
| Acronym | Name | Co-located with | Budget | Sponsorship |
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| AIWare | ACM International Conference on AI-Powered Software | FSE | with FSE | SIGSOFT |
| Internetware | Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware | FSE | separate | SIGSOFT(25%) / China Computer Federation (75%) |
| ISSTA | International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis | FSE (not always) | mostly separate | SIGSOFT |
| AST | International Conference on Automation of Software Test | ICSE | with ICSE | IEEE/ACM |
| CAIN | International Conference on AI Engineering – Software Engineering for AI | ICSE | with ICSE | IEEE/ACM |
| FORGE | International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering | ICSE | with ICSE | IEEE/ACM |
| FormaliSE | International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering | ICSE | with ICSE | IEEE/ACM |
| ICPC | International Conference on Program Comprehension | ICSE | with ICSE | IEEE/ACM |
| MOBILESoft | International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems | ICSE | with ICSE | IEEE/ACM |
| MSR | International Conference on Mining Software Repositories | ICSE | with ICSE | IEEE/ACM |
| SEAMS | International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems | ICSE | with ICSE | IEEE/ACM |
| Techdebt | International Conference on Technical Debt | ICSE | with ICSE | IEEE/ACM |
| SAM | System Analysis and Modelling Conference | MODELS | with MODELS | IEEE/ACM |
| ASE | International Conference on Automated Software Engineering | separate | IEEE/SIGSOFT/SIGAI (25%) | |
| DEBS | International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems | separate | SIGSOFT/SIGMOD | |
| EDTconf | International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins | with MODELS | SIGSOFT/IEEE CS | |
| ESEM | International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | separate | IEEE/ACM | |
| FSE | International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering | separate | SIGSOFT | |
| ICGSE | International Conference on Global Software Engineering | separate | ||
| ICPE | International Conference on Performance Engineering | separate | SIGSOFT(25%) / SIGMETRICS(25%) / SPEC(50%) | |
| ICSE | International Conference on Software Engineering | separate | IEEE / ACM | |
| ICSSP | International Conference on Software and System Processes | separate (used to be with ICSE) | ||
| MODELS | International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems | separate | IEEE/ACM | |
| SPLC | International Systems and Software Product Line Conference | separate |
The SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award is presented annually to an individual or individuals who have made significant and lasting research contributions to the theory or practice of software engineering.
The SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award is presented annually to individuals who have contributed dedicated and important service to the software engineering community.
The SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award is presented annually to an educator or educators who have made significant contributions to, and impact on, the field of software engineering with his or her accomplishments as a teacher, mentor, researcher (in education or learning), author, and/or policy maker.
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