ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Software workplaces are increasingly recognized as key spaces for professional development, where developers encounter various challenges in their roles, which they often discuss in online forums. This paper analyzes 47,368 posts on the Workplace StackExchange site, aggregating developer insights and applying topic modeling techniques. Through manual analysis, we identified 46 distinct topics grouped into seven categories: Employee Wellness, Communication, Career Movement & Hiring, Conflicts & Mistakes, Corporate Policies, Management/Supervisor Responsibilities, and Learning & Technical Skills. Our findings show that approximately 30% of discussions involve workplace conflicts, marking this as the most prominent topic. Additionally, we found that workplace culture, harassment, and other corporate policy-related issues represent significant areas of difficulty commonly discussed among developers.

Mon 13 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

11:00 - 12:30
Signals from Online Communities for Engineering and Business DecisionsIWSiB at Bora Bora V
11:00
30m
Talk
COSETO: An Evidence-based AI Approach for Software Component Comparison
IWSiB
Mahdi JABERZADEH ANSARI Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Ann Barcomb Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Gouri Ginde Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Syed Tauhid Ullah Shah University of Calgary
11:30
30m
Talk
A large-scale analysis of workplace discussions on StackExchangeVirtual Attendance
IWSiB
Natasha Grech Trent University, Md Farhad Hossain Trent University, Omar Alam Trent University
12:00
30m
Talk
Non-functional requirements: The issues online forum users are discussing aboutVirtual Attendance
IWSiB
Carolin Mombrey GSaME, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Lara Kollikowski University of Stuttgart, Germany, Georg Herzwurm University of Stuttgart, Germany