Software Engineering Notes (SEN)

About

Software Engineering Notes (SEN) is an informal publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT). SEN is hence appropriate for contributions in all areas of software engineering, therein included (but not limited to) requirements, specification, design and implementation methods, software maintenance, reuse and re-engineering, quality assurance, measurement and evaluation, software processes, automated tools, practical experience, and related issues. SIGSOFT seeks to address research and development issues in these areas and to provide a common ground for both, through sponsorship of conferences, symposia and workshops, and the publication of SEN.

SEN (ISSN: 0163-5948) appears quarterly, viz., four issues a year. It is edited, but not refereed. Contributions should be structured and submitted as indicated by the online available publication guidelines.

SEN online in the ACM Digital Library

The full text of the latest issue of SEN and of all its back issues is available online in the ACM Digital Library. All issues can be freely accessed by SIGSOFT members.

Indexing

SEN contributions are archived in the ACM Digital Library and accessible through the main indexing platforms, including DBLP Computer and Google Scholar, among others.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy

Production Editor

Ajay Jain, Adobe Systems Inc.

Associate Editors

  • Uwe Breitenbücher, University of Reutlingen, Germany
  • Stefano Forti, University of Pisa, Italy
  • Will Tracz, United States

Contacts

Reach the editorial team of SEN at editors_SIGSOFT [at] acm.org

Instructions for conference and workshop organizers

Software Engineering Notes (SEN) provides ACM SIGSOFT-affiliated conferences, workshops or symposiums an opportunity to publish proceedings and/or meeting summaries. See here.

Publication Guidelines

See here.

Software Engineering Education (SEEd)

Peter Henderson started the Software Engineering Education (SEEd) column in SEN in 2003. In 2009, Mark Ardis became the lead author of the column with Peter continuing as co-author. There have been occasional guest authors over the years as well. Here are links to text of each of the columns in the ACM Digital Library, along with their major topics.

See here.

Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes

Mark Doernhoefer wrote the Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes column for SEN. Beginning with the January 2001 issue of SEN, Mark switched over from coverage of software engineering discussions on the Usenet newsgroups to software engineering-related sites on the World Wide Web.

See here.

ACM Fellows

Each year, ACM recognizes members of the computing community who have made notable contributions to our field by honoring them as ACM Fellows. A large number of Fellows are also members of SIGSOFT, so beginning with the July 1998 issue of Software Engineering Notes (SEN), we’ve been publishing profiles of these folks.

Here are the profiles published.

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