Events

Events

SIGSOFT sponsors or co-sponsors the conferences and events described below. The dates and locations for the upcoming instance of each conference and event are listed in the ACM Calendar of Events.

Please refer to the Resources page for information for event organizers, financial support for students to attend conferences (CAPS), obtaining visas to travel to SIGSOFT events in the US, and more.

Conferences and Events

ASE

Automated Software Engineering Conference: held every 12 months, in September in even-numbered years, in November in odd-numbered years.

DEBS

International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems: held every 12 months, typically in June.

FSE

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, held annually. FSE and ESEC/FSE officially merged in 2017 into a single annual conference with a single steering committee. Since 2024, ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), is the official new name of this annual conference series.

ESEM

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Management: held every 12 months, typically in the fall.

ICPE

International Conference on Performance Engineering: held every 12 months, typically in April.

ICSE

International Conference on Software Engineering: held every 12 months, typically in May. ICSE Conferences’ history page lists past events.

ISSTA

International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: held every 12 months, typically in July or August.

MOBILESoft

International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems: held every 12 months, collocated with ICSE.

MoDELS

International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: held every 12 months, typically in October.

Past ESEC / FSE Conferences

ESEC/FSE is the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. Prior to 2017, ESEC/FSE was held every 24 months, alternating with SIGSOFT FSE. As of 2017, ESEC/FSE is held annually. FSE and ESEC/FSE officially merged in 2017 into a single annual conference with a single steering committee. Since 2024, ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), is the official new name of this annual conference series.

Past SIGSOFT / FSE conferences

  • SIGSOFT 2016/FSE 24, Austin, Texas 2016
  • SIGSOFT 2014/FSE 22, Hong Kong 2014
  • SIGSOFT 2012/FSE 20, Research Triangle, NC, USA 2012
  • SIGSOFT 2010/FSE 18, Santa Fe, NM, USA 2010
  • SIGSOFT 2008/FSE 16, Atlanta, GA, USA 2008
  • SIGSOFT 2006/FSE 14, Portland, Oregon, USA 2006
  • SIGSOFT 2004/FSE 12, Newport Beach, CA, USA 2004
  • SIGSOFT 2002/FSE 10, Charleston, SC, USA 2002
  • SIGSOFT 2000/FSE 8, San Diego, CA, USA 2000
  • SIGSOFT 1998/FSE 6/ISAW-3, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA 1998
  • SIGSOFT 1996/FSE 4/ISAW-2, San Francisco, CA, USA 1996
  • SIGSOFT 1995/FSE 3, Washington, DC, USA, October 10-13, 1995
  • SIGSOFT 1994/FSE 2, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 6-9, 1994
  • SIGSOFT 1993/FSE 1, Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 7-10, 1993

Past ESEC / FSE conferences

  • ESEC/FSE 2018, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 2018
  • ESEC 2017/FSE 25, Paderborn, Germany, 2017
  • ESEC 2015/FSE 23, Bergamo, Italy, 2015
  • ESEC 2013/FSE 21, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2013
  • ESEC 2011/FSE 19, Szeged, Hungary, 2011
  • ESEC 2009/FSE 17, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009
  • ESEC 2007/FSE 15, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2007
  • ESEC 2005/FSE 13, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005
  • ESEC 2003/FSE 11, Helsinki, Finland, 2003
  • ESEC 2001/FSE 9, Vienna, Austria, 2001
  • ESEC 1999/FSE 7, Toulouse, France, 1999
  • ESEC 1997/FSE 5, Zurich, Switzerland, 1997

Past Sponsored Events

CBSE

International Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering

PASTE

Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering