Tool Demonstration TrackICSME 2025
Call for Papers
Goal and Scope
The ICSME 2025 Tool Demonstration Track allows researchers and practitioners to present and discuss software maintenance and evolution tools. We welcome submissions for tools ranging from research prototypes to industry tools. We specifically encourage submissions that accompany papers in the Research Paper Track and tools whose code base and/or development process is open-source. The tool demonstration paper should focus on the tool’s architecture, implementation, and intended usage.
Evaluation
At least three program committee members will review each submission. The committee will review each submission on its merits and quality.
A good tool paper should:
- fall under the topics mentioned for the ICSME 2025 research track;
- present and discuss a tool that has NOT been published before as a tool paper;
- discuss the relevance of the proposed tool to the ICSME community;
- report the motivation behind the tool, including typical usage scenarios;
- describe the tool’s novelty and how it relates to previous industrial or research efforts;
- describe the tool’s goals, requirements, architecture and explain its inner workings;
- NOT necessarily contain a (large-scale) empirical study of the tool, BUT any empirical results or user feedback are highly encouraged;
- consider the relevant literature;
- exhibit presentation quality;
At the end of the abstract, include the URL of a 3-to-5-minute screencast, either with annotations or voice-over, that provides a concise version of the tool demo scenario(s).
The video should be posted online (unlisted YouTube, hosted on the tool’s website, etc.).
Recommended: Include the URL to an online live version of the tool in the abstract.
Paper Submission
To make a submission, please use the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsme2025 and select “Tool Demonstration.”
Submitted papers must comply with IEEE plagiarism policy and procedures. Papers submitted to ICSME 2025 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration for ICSME 2025. Submitting the same paper to different tracks of ICSME 2025 is also not allowed.
The tool demo track is single-anonymous (i.e., authors will remain visible to the reviewers) to allow reporting on the tool’s history, ecosystem, community support, etc., as well as to avoid the overhead of managing anonymized repositories or source code.
Submissions must strictly adhere to the two-column IEEE conference proceedings format. You can find the templates here. LaTeX users should use the following configuration: \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
. Microsoft Word users should use the US Letter format template. Papers must not exceed 5 pages, including all text, figures, appendices, and references. All submissions must be in PDF and submitted online by the deadline via the EasyChair link (shared above). All authors, reviewers, and organizers are expected to uphold the IEEE Code of Conduct.
Papers that do not comply with the submission guidelines will be desk-rejected and not be sent to the PC for review.
Submissions that are not in compliance with the required submission format or that are out of the scope of the conference will be desk-rejected.
Publication and Presentation
Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete an IEEE Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera-ready versions. Accepted papers will be published in the electronic conference proceedings, which will also be available in the IEEE Digital Library.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper at the conference.
Important Dates
All submission dates are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
- Paper Submission: May 29, 2025
- Notification: July 7, 2025
- Camera-Ready Submission: July 27, 2025