Call for Papers
Open Science is a movement that seeks to make scientific research more transparent, rigorous, accessible, and reproducible. This increases the accountability of those contributing to the research, but also their credit for opening up scientific work. Open science aims to make research more open to participation, review/refutation, improvement, and (re-)use for the community to benefit through making research material available and reusable.
ECSA decided to introduce in 2025 the Open Science Track, encouraging and supporting authors in making their research and artifacts more accessible, reproducible, and verifiable. Upon submission of the artifacts of the accepted papers, the Open Science Committee will assess their Open Science compliance.
We expect authors of all accepted papers to include an explicit availability statement in the Camera Ready version of their submissions. Specifically, authors should provide details about any material disclosed alongside their submission, such as data, code, and other relevant material. Otherwise, the authors should justify the reasons why disclosure is not possible (e.g., due to IP agreements).
We strongly encourage authors to read and apply the following best practices to contribute to open science:
Before/during camera-ready submission:
• Adequately document the material associated with your submission to allow for, to the best extent possible, replicability, reproducibility, and reusability.
• Prepare a README file that lists precisely what is being shared and how to use and re-use the research material.
• Introduce a running example that helps readers and the wider community validate and reuse the shared material.
• If you are sharing code, think thoroughly about the requirements and dependencies for running the code and how to facilitate this process (e.g., use Docker where possible).
• Attribute an appropriate open licence to the shared material and make sure you share this licence with the material under the same folder in a LICENSE.md file.
Availability Statement Evaluation Process
In addition to the availability statement, all papers accepted to the ECSA2025 Technical and Industrial Tracks are invited to submit in the Open Science track of the conference the artifacts associated with those papers as candidate to receive the following badges:
1. Availability Statement: Evaluated - Functional
The statement associated with the research is found to be documented, consistent, complete, exercisable, and includes appropriate evidence of verification and validation.
2. Availability Statement: Evaluated - Reusable
Functional + the statement associated with the paper is of a quality that significantly exceeds minimal functionality. They are very carefully documented and well-structured to the extent that reusing and repurposing is facilitated. In particular, norms and standards of the research community for artifacts of this type are strictly adhered to.
3. Availability Statement: Available
Author-created statements relevant to this paper have been placed in a publicly accessible archival repository. A DOI or link to this repository, along with a unique identifier for the object, is provided
Please indicate in your submission which badges you intend to apply for. These badges are considered independently, and any one, two, or all three can be applied to any given paper. If those availability statements are verified against the given artifact(s), the corresponding papers will each receive the badges on the front page of the authors’ paper and in the proceedings.
Submission link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025 (select the Open science track)
Further reading
• Open Science – Artefact Management Guideline - http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8134403
• General introduction into Open Science in Software Engineering and generally recommended practices: D. Mendez, D. Graziotin, S. Wagner, H. Seibold. Open Science in Software Engineering. In: M. Felderer, G.-H. Travassos (eds.) Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering, Springer, 2020 - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-32489-6_17