DemonstrationsICSE 2026

Call for Demonstrations

The ICSE 2026 Demonstrations Track aims to make the software engineering community aware of new advances in our field through compelling demonstrations that help advance research and practice. The track is a highly interactive venue where researchers and practitioners can demonstrate their tools or technology and discuss them with conference attendees.

Tool-based demonstrations describe novel aspects of early prototypes or mature tools, including exciting new features of established tools. The tool demonstrations must communicate clearly the following information to the audience:

• envisioned users

• software engineering challenge addressed

• methodology or workflow required of users

• results of validation studies for mature tools, or design of planned studies for early prototypes

Highlighting scientific contributions through concrete artifacts is a critical supplement to the traditional ICSE research papers. A demonstration provides the opportunity to communicate how the scientific approach has been implemented or how a specific hypothesis has been assessed, including details such as implementation and usage issues, data models and representations, and APIs for tool and data access. Authors of regular research papers are thus also encouraged to submit an accompanying demonstration paper. In such cases, the authors must ensure that the tool details should not have already been discussed in the original paper and the tool paper provides more information on implementation and usage.

Evaluation

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Demonstrations Track program committee. The evaluation criteria include:

• relevance of demonstration for the ICSE audience

• technical soundness of the submission

• novelty of underlying ideas and concepts

• quality of presentation in associated video

• potential applications and usefulness of the tool

• consideration of relevant literature

How to Submit

Paper

All authors should use the official “ACM Primary Article Template” available from the ACM Proceedings Template page. LaTeX users should use the sigconf option, as well as the review option (to produce line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers). To that end, the following LaTeX code can be placed at the start of the LaTeX document:

\documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}

\acmConference[ICSE 2026]{48th International Conference on Software Engineering}{April 2026}{Rio de Janeiro, Brazil}

• All Demonstrations submissions must not exceed 4 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, appendices, etc. All submissions must be in PDF.

• 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.

• By submitting to the ICSE Demonstrations Track, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. Papers submitted to the Demonstrations track must not have been published previously in demonstration form.

• By submitting your paper to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. 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.

• Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.

• The Demonstrations track will use the single-anonymous reviewing model (the authors do not know who the reviewers are, but the reviewers do know the authors), so please include the authors’ identities in the submission materials.

• Upon acceptance, authors have the possibility to separately submit their supplementary material to the ICSE 2026 Artifact Evaluation track, for recognition of artifacts that are reusable, available, replicated or reproduced.

• Papers must be submitted electronically through the Demonstration Track submission site https://icse26demos.hotcrp.com. At the end of the abstract, make sure to append the URL at which the demonstration video can be found.

• The submission must contain a link to the publicly available tool and its usage instructions. Optionally, if the tool is open source, the submission should link to the corresponding repository.

Video

Each submission must be accompanied by a short video (between three and five minutes long) describing the demonstration.

• The video should be made available online at the time of submission. Videos should:

1. provide an overview of the tool or technology capabilities

2. walkthrough of (some of) the tool or technology capabilities

3. where appropriate, provide clarifying voice-over and/or annotation highlights

4. be engaging and exciting for the viewer!

• For consistency, we require that all videos be uploaded to YouTube and made accessible during the time of reviewing. Authors of successful submissions will have the opportunity to revise both the paper and the video (and its hosting location) by the camera-ready deadline.

For examples of previously successful short videos, please see the examples from ICSE 2018: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6g5MCGbJtUF1iW4RSPvUtbKkemrVYrkP

Tool

Authors must distribute their tool in an easy-to-use form, such as an active website that provides fast response time and will remain online indefinitely, a virtual machine image, a software container (e.g., Docker), or a system configuration (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Salt, CFEngine). Do not expect reviewers to have to build your code!

Important Dates (AoE Time)

• Submission Deadline: 29-Sep-2025
• Acceptance Notification: 1-Dec-2025
• Camera Ready: 05-Jan-2026