12th International Conference on Software Engineering

12^th International Conference on Software Engineering (SOENG 2026)

July 25 ~ 26, 2026, Toronto, Canada

Scope & Topics

The 12^th International Conference on Software Engineering (SOENG 2026) provides a premier international forum for sharing cutting edge research, innovative methodologies, and advanced applications in Software Engineering and its rapidly evolving subfields. As software systems grow in scale, complexity and societal impact, SOENG 2026 aims to bring together leading researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to explore modern software engineering concepts, address emerging challenges, and foster new collaborations across academia and industry.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

Software Engineering Foundations and Theory

• Software Architecture, Design Patterns and Refactoring
  

• Formal Methods, Model Checking and Correctness
  

• Static and Dynamic Program Analysis
  

• Requirements Engineering and Specification Languages
  

• Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and Meta Modeling
  

• Software Modeling, Simulation and Verification

  AI Native and LLM Driven Software Engineering

• AI Assisted Development, Code Generation and Autonomous Coding Agents
  

• LLM Based Software Engineering (Repair, Summarization, Test Generation)
  

• AI Generated Software Architectures and API Synthesis
  

• AI Driven Refactoring, Design Synthesis and Architecture Optimization
  

• Prompt Engineering, Evaluation and Safety for SE Tasks
  

• Human AI Collaboration and Cognitive SE
  

• AI Driven Debugging, Fault Localization and Automated Program Repair

  Software Engineering for Agentic AI Systems

• Engineering Multi Agent AI Systems
  

• Agent Workflow Orchestration and Reliability
  

• Safety, Coordination and Governance of Autonomous Agents
  

• Agent Centric Software Architectures
  

• Debugging and Testing Agentic AI Systems

  Software Testing, Quality and Reliability

• Automated Test Generation, Prioritization and Optimization
  

• Mutation Testing, Fuzzing and Search Based Testing
  

• Reliability Engineering, Fault Tolerance and Resilience
  

• Performance Engineering, Scalability and Load Testing
  

• Quality Assurance, Metrics, Observability and Telemetry
  

• Testing and Validation of AI/ML Enabled Systems
  

• Chaos Engineering and Failure Injection

  Software Maintenance, Evolution and Re Engineering

• Software Evolution, Technical Debt and Architectural Decay
  

• Legacy System Modernization and Migration
  

• Reverse Engineering and Program Comprehension
  

• Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and DevOps Pipelines
  

• Automated Maintenance and Intelligent Change Impact Analysis

  Software Processes, Management and Human Factors

• Agile, Lean, DevOps and Hybrid Development Processes
  

• Software Project Management, Planning and Risk Analysis
  

• Developer Productivity, Cognitive Load and Human Centered SE
  

• Socio Technical Systems, Team Dynamics and Collaboration
  

• Knowledge Management and Decision Making in SE
  

• Continuous Experimentation, A/B Testing and Feature Flag Engineering

  Programming Languages, Compilers and Runtime Systems

• Programming Language Design and Implementation
  

• Compiler Optimization, Static Analysis and Runtime Verification
  

• Managed Runtimes, Virtual Machines and Execution Engines
  

• Type Systems, Memory Safety and Concurrency Models
  

• Language Support for Parallelism, Distribution and Safety

  Cloud Native, Distributed and Cyber Physical Systems

• Cloud Native Software Engineering and Microservices
  

• Serverless Computing, Event Driven Architectures and Cloud Automation
  

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), IaC Testing and IaC Anti Patterns
  

• Distributed Systems Engineering and Large Scale System Design
  

• Distributed AI Systems Engineering and Multi Model Orchestration
  

• Edge Computing, IoT Software Engineering and Distributed Intelligence
  

• Cyber Physical Systems, Embedded Software and Real Time Systems
  

• Autonomous Systems and Robotics Software Engineering

  Security, Privacy and Trustworthy Software

• Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
  

• Vulnerability Detection, Secure Coding and Threat Modeling
  

• Software Supply Chain Security and SBOM Management
  

• Privacy Preserving Software Engineering and Compliance Automation
  

• Formal Verification for Safety Critical and Security Critical Systems
  

• Secure DevOps (DevSecOps) and Continuous Security Testing
  

• AI Safety Engineering for Software Systems

  Data Driven and Empirical Software Engineering

• Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
  

• Empirical Studies, Experiments and Evidence Based SE
  

• Developer Analytics, Telemetry and Productivity Insights
  

• Predictive Models for Software Quality and Maintenance
  

• Data Centric SE and Observability Driven Development

  Web, Mobile and Emerging Application Engineering

• Web Engineering, Web APIs and WebAssembly
  

• Mobile App Engineering, Cross Platform Frameworks and Mobile Testing
  

• Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and Offline First Architectures
  

• Software Engineering for AR/VR/MR and Immersive Applications
  

• Software Engineering for Digital Twins and Simulation Driven Systems
  

• Engineering for Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Web3 Applications

  Software Engineering for AI/ML Systems

• MLOps, LLMOps and Model Lifecycle Management
  

• Data Quality Engineering and Data Pipeline Reliability
  

• Testing, Monitoring and Governance of AI/ML Systems
  

• Safety, Robustness and Ethical AI Engineering
  

• AI System Deployment, Drift Detection and Continuous Validation

  Software Engineering for Emerging Hardware

• Quantum Software Engineering
  

• Neuromorphic Software Engineering
  

• Heterogeneous Compute Orchestration
  

• Cross Platform Compilation for Emerging Architectures

  Education, Training and Knowledge Transfer

• Software Engineering Education and Pedagogy
  

• Online Learning Platforms and Immersive Learning Tools
  

• Gamification and Simulation Based SE Training
  

• Curriculum Innovation for Future Software Engineers
  

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by May 09, 2026. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Selected papers from SOENG 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• The International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA) – ERA Indexed
  

• International Journal on Computational Science & Applications (IJCSA)
  

• International Journal of Security, Privacy and Trust Management ( IJSPTM )
  

• Information Technology in Industry (ITII)

Important Dates

Co – Located Event

• 12^th International Conference on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (IPPR 2026)
  

• 13^th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT 2026)
  

• 14^th International Conference of Security, Privacy and Trust Management (SPTM 2026)
  

• 15^th International conference on Parallel, Distributed Computing and Applications (IPDCA 2026)
  

• 12^th International Conference on Data Mining (DaMi 2026)
  

• 12^th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (AIS 2026)
  

• 7^th International Conference on Natural Language Processing & Applications (NLPA 2026)
  

• 7^th International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning (AMLA 2026)
  

• 7^th International Conference on Big Data and Applications (BDAP 2026)
  

***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to soeng@sptm2026.org