By David Lo (SIGSOFT Awards Chair) and Thomas Zimmermann (SIGSOFT Chair) SIGSOFT has an award program to recognize the outstanding contributions of the members of the software engineering community. Many of the awards are given at conferences, for example, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards, as well as several Most…

By Gail C. Murphy (University of British Columbia) and Mik Kersten (CTO, Planview), as winners of the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for 2022 A lot has changed in the world of software since we published “Using Task Context to Improve Programmer Productivity” in FSE 2006. We would like to…

By Pierre Alliez, Roberto Di Cosmo, Alain Girault, Benjamin Guedj, Mohand-Said Hacid, Arnaud Legrand, Xavier Leroy, Nicolas Rougier, Manuel Serrano Software is a significant part of our scientific production, and we believe it must be put on par with articles and data in our daily practice. This includes obviously our…

By Kelly Blincoe and Paolo Tonella, ESEC/FSE 2023 Program Chairs, and Satish Chandra, ESEC/FSE 2023 General Chair SE conferences are currently forced to reject papers that include valuable material, but would need major changes to become acceptable for conference publication, because major revisions cannot be accommodated in the current review…

By Tom Zimmermann, Marsha Chechik, Cristian Cadar, David Lo, Martin Robillard and Lin Tan SIGSOFT is the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, in charge of organizing and sponsoring many of the top conferences and events in software engineering, recognizing software engineers via its award program, and providing a…

By Mauro Pezzè, Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology Can journals still serve the frenetic evolutions of contemporary research? Does the archival nature of classic software engineering journals meet the interdisciplinary evolution of leading-edge research? Can we harmonize the review process of archive journals with the pressing career…

By David Lo (SIGSOFT Awards Chair) and Thomas Zimmermann (SIGSOFT Chair) SIGSOFT has an award program to recognize the outstanding contributions of the members of the software engineering community. Many of the awards are designated at conferences, for example, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award as well as several Most…

By Barbora Buhnova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, Mark Harman, Meta Inc and UCL, UK, Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Ivica Crnkovic, Professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, and Mälardalen University, Västerås, has passed away on Wednesday 2nd February 2022. Ivica was a highly respected member of the…

By Jacopo Soldani, SEN EiC, and Cristian Cadar, SIGSOFT Blog EiC The SIGSOFT Blog was launched to complement SIGSOFT’s other informal publication platform, the Software Engineering Notes (SEN). In this short blog post, we remind the community about SEN, and discuss the envisioned connections between the two SIGSOFT platforms. Software…