WETSEB 2026

The 8th Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain aims at involving researchers interested in emerging topics and trends in software engineering with a particular focus on Blockchain software systems, extending the experiences of WETSEB 2018 through WETSEB 2025.

Given the new and specific challenges proposed to software engineers by the emerging Blockchain technology, since WETSEB 2018, the organizers switched workshop interest from software metrics (WETSoM 2010 to 2017) to specific software engineering for the Blockchain technology.

Motivations for this workshop have increased in the past two editions given the clear outstanding interest in software communities, in the academy, in the industry, in finance, and in the media in Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering (BOSE) [1], witnessed by the larger and larger amount of publications and of start-ups and companies that in the last years exploited this new technology.

Besides the growing interest, there is still a lack of software engineering practices applied to blockchain-oriented software. This workshop aims to stimulate the interest of researchers, practitioners, and people from industry in the current issues and new directions and challenges for blockchain oriented software engineering and at investigating the need for novel specialized software engineering practices for the Blockchain software ecosystem.

The topics of interest in the discussion include:

• Blockchain-Oriented Software Engineering.
• Blockchain software analysis and re-engineering
• Formal specification of Blockchain behavior
• Agile and Lean processes for Blockchain software development
• Tools for Blockchain software distributed development and community management
• Smart Contracts re-engineering
• Security and reliability in Blockchain and Smart Contracts
• Smart Contract Testing (SCT)
• Blockchain Transaction Testing (BTT) to ensure status integrity
• Blockchain Software architecture, design notation and metamodels
• Applications in Economy and Finance
• Internet of Things
• Notarization Supply chain management Web 3.0 e-commerce, e-health, e-democracy social networks.

[1] Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering, S. Porru, A. Pinna, M Marchesi, R. Tonelli, ICSE 2017

Call for Papers

The Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain inherits from the past eight editions of WETSoM (Workshop on Emerging Trends on Software Metrics) the challenges of gathering together researchers interested in emerging topics and trends in software engineering.

The Workshop’s goal is to discuss on the progresses and on open problems in the ongoing research and on the application of Software Engineering to Blockchain Software Systems, gathering together practitioners and researchers from academia and form industry. This concerns the blockchain technology, the smart contracts software, the integration between blockchain and external components, such as interfaces and Dapps, and all the technologies relying on it. The workshop calls researches on modelling languages, domain specific languages, tools, paradigms, principles, approaches to deal with the new challenges posed by Blockchain technology to software engineers and for a specific Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering (BOSE) [1].

This year we also solicit contributions on Early Research Achievements (ERA) from Ph.D. students and young researcher on the field.

Topics:

• Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering
• Blockchain software analysis and reengineering
• Formal specification of Blockchain behavior
• Agile and Lean processes for Blockchain software development
• Tools for Blockchain software distributed development and community management
• Smart Contracts reengineering
• Security and reliability in Blockchain and Smart Contracts
• Smart Contract Testing (SCT)
• Blockchain Transaction Testing (BTT) to ensure status integrity
• Blockchain Software architecture, design notation and metamodels.
• Smart Contracts Software architecture, design notation and metamodels.
• Software Engineering for Blockchain
• Applications in Economy and Finance, Internet of Things, Notarization, Supply chain management
• Web 3.0 – e-commerce, e-health, e-democracy, social networks, etc .

[1] Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering, S. Porru, A. Pinna, M Marchesi, R. Tonelli, ICSE 2017

Submission details.

All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the official “ACM Primary Article Template”, which can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template page. LaTeX users should use the sigconf option, as well as the review (to produce line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers) and anonymous (omitting author names) options. To that end, the following LaTeX code can be placed at the start of the LaTeX document:

\documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}

Submissions must not exceed:

• Extended abstract up to 5 pages
• Full papers up to 8 pages

Submissions must strictly conform to the ACM conference proceedings formatting instructions specified above. Alterations of spacing, font size, and other changes that deviate from the instructions may result in desk rejection without further review.

If the research involves human participants/subjects, the authors must adhere to the ACM Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Upon submitting, authors will declare their compliance with such a policy. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

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The ICSE 2026 Workshop Track will employ a double-anonymous review process. Thus, no submission may reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-anonymous review process. In particular:

• Authors’ names must be omitted from the submission.
• All references to the author’s prior work should be in the third person.
• While authors have the right to upload preprints on ArXiV or similar sites, they must avoid specifying that the manuscript was submitted to WETSEB 2026.
• All communication with the program committee must go through the program committee chairs. Do not contact individual program committee members regarding your submission.