About us

The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2026) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software maintenance and evolution.

Important Dates

Fri, Feb 27, 2026
Abstract submission
Fri, Mar 6, 2026
Paper submission
Sun, May 3, 2026
Early Decisions notification
Mon, May 4, 2026
Author response period start
Fri, May 8, 2026
Author response period end
Fri, May 29, 2026
Final notification

Call For Paper

Change and defect management
Code cloning and provenance
Concept and feature location
Continuous integration/deployment
Empirical studies of software maintenance and evolution
Evolution of non-code artifacts
Evolution and maintenance of AI-based applications
Human factors and social aspects of software maintenance and evolution
Large Language Models for software evolution and maintenance tasks
Maintenance and evolution of model-based methods
Maintenance and evolution of mobile apps
Maintenance and evolution of service-oriented and cloud computing systems
Maintenance and evolution processes
Maintenance versus release process
Mining software repositories
Productivity of software engineers during maintenance and evolution
Release engineering
Reverse engineering and re-engineering
Run-time evolution and dynamic configuration
Software and system comprehension
Software migration and renovation
Software quality assessment
Software refactoring and restructuring
Software testing theory and practice
Source code analysis and manipulation
Technical Debt

The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2026) invites high-quality submissions describing significant and unpublished results related to software maintenance and evolution topics. Submissions must be full papers, follow the two-column IEEE conference proceedings format, and adhere to a double-anonymous review process.