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| Formation | 1976 |
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| Products | Software development |
Key people | Executive Committee |
| Website | www.sigsoft.org |
TheAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)'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 insoftware engineering.
SIGSOFT was officially formed in 1976 as the Special Interest Committee on Software Engineering (SICSOFT) byTony Wasserman and R. Stockton Gaines, 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,mining software repositories, software processes, software management, measurement, user interfaces, configuration management, software engineering environments, AI for software engineering, and CASE tools.
SIGSOFT (co-)sponsors conferences and symposia including theInternational Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE),[4] theACM 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 newsletterSoftware 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Years | Chair | Vice Chair | Secretary/Treasurer | At-Large Members | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976–1978 (SICSOFT) | Tony Wasserman (after Thomas B. Steel resigned) | Susan L. Gerhart | Peter A. Freeman | – | SICSOFT officially approved (birth of SIGSOFT). |
| 1978–1979 | Tony Wasserman | Susan Owicki | Norman F. Schneidewind | Richard Fairley, Seymour Jeffery, Anita Jones, John B. Goodenough | Newsletter Editor: Peter Neumann |
| 1979–1981 | Marvin Zelkowitz | William Riddle | Norman F. Schneidewind | Richard Fairley, Seymour Jeffery, Anita Jones, John B. Goodenough | |
| 1981–1983 | William Riddle | Rick Adrion | John D. Gannon | Herb Chang, Nico Habermann, Tony Wasserman | Newsletter Editor: Peter Neumann |
| 1983–1985 | William Riddle | Rick Adrion | Pamela Zave | Larry Druffel, John Musa, Tony Wasserman | |
| 1985–1987 | Rick Adrion | Pamela Zave | Lori Clarke | John Musa, Tony Wasserman, Marvin Zelkowitz | |
| 1987–1989 | Rick Adrion | Richard N. Taylor | Lori Clarke | Peter Henderson, Nancy Leveson, Tony Wasserman | |
| 1989–1993 | Richard N. Taylor | Lori Clarke | Elaine Weyuker (1989–92), David Notkin (1992–93) | Nancy Leveson, Dewayne Perry, Tony Wasserman | |
| 1993–1997 | Lori Clarke | David Notkin | – | – | |
| 1997–2001 | David Notkin | Alexander L. Wolf | Mary Jean Harrold | Wilhelm Schäfer, David Garlan, Martin Griss, Tony Wasserman, Kokichi Futatsugi | |
| 2001–2005 | Alexander L. Wolf | Mary Jean Harrold | William G. Griswold | Laura Dillon, David Rosenblum, Jeff Magee | |
| 2005–2009 | William G. Griswold | David S. Rosenblum | Matthew Dwyer | Paola Inverardi, Andreas Zeller, Laura Dillon | |
| 2009–2012 | David S. Rosenblum | Matthew B. Dwyer | – | Laura Dillon, Jo Atlee, Gail Murphy, Bashar Nuseibeh (resigned, replaced by Mark Grechanik) | |
| 2012–2015 | Will Tracz | Laura Dillon | Gail C. Murphy | Frank Tip, Frances Paulisch, Willem C. Visser | |
| 2015–2018 | Nenad Medvidovic | Jane Cleland-Huang | Elisabetta Di Nitto | Harald C. Gall, Mark Grechanik, Willem C. Visser | |
| 2018–2021 | Thomas Zimmermann | Marsha Chechik | Robert Dyer | Marija Mikic, Gregg E. Rothermel, Sebastian Uchitel | |
| 2021–2024 | Thomas Zimmermann | Marsha Chechik | Lin Tan | Cristian Cadar, David Lo, Martin Robillard | |
| 2024–2027 | Marsha Chechik | Massimiliano Di Penta | David Lo | Claire Le Goues, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Kelly Blincoe | Current Executive Committee |
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.
The SIGSOFT Early Career Award is presented to an individual or individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the area of software engineering as an early career investigator.
The SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually to the authors of outstanding doctoral dissertations in the area of Software Engineering.
The SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award is presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at a SIGSOFT-sponsored or co-sponsored conference held at least 11 years prior to the award year.
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