Call for Papers
The Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results track at ICST provides a vibrant forum for forward-looking, innovative research in software testing. The main goal of the Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results track is to accelerate the exposure of the software engineering community to early yet potentially ground-breaking research results, techniques, and perspectives that challenge the status quo in the discipline.
Scope
The scope and the topics of the Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results track are the same as those of the ICST 2025 research track.
The ICST Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results track solicits submissions in two categories:
- Groundbreaking research papers: Exciting new directions or techniques that may have yet to be supported by solid experimental results but supported by strong and well-argued scientific intuitions.
- Reflection papers: Bold and unexpected results and reflections that challenge the existing research outcomes and help us look at current research directions in a new light, calling for fundamentally new future research directions.
The Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results track provides a platform to seek comments and suggestions on ongoing work to help the research mature into full-track submissions at top software engineering conferences. Please note that summaries of existing papers do not qualify for this track.
Evaluation Criteria
Each submission will be reviewed and evaluated in terms of the following quality criteria:
- Value: Whether the problem is worth exploring;
- Potential impact: The potential for disruption of current practice;
In addition, the Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results track PC comment on:
- Soundness: The validity of the idea and of the results analysis (if any);
- Presentation quality: The overall quality of the paper’s presentation
Submission Format
Each submission must be at most 4 pages, including all text, appendices, and figures, plus up to 2 additional pages containing references only. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at the time of submission, to the IEEE Proceedings Template: IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (please use the letter format template and conference option).
How to Submit
Papers must be submitted electronically through the ICST Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results 2025 website at (submission link TBA). All submissions must be in English.
By submitting to the ICST Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results Track, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ (https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html). In particular, papers submitted to ICST Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results 2025 must not have been published elsewhere. They must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ICST Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results 2025.
Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. To check for double submission and plagiarism issues, the chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences with overlapping review periods and (2) use external plagiarism detection software under contract to the ACM or IEEE, to detect violations of these policies.
Double Anonymity Submission Guidelines
The ICST Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results 2025 adopts a double-blind review process. No submitted paper may reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must honor the double-anonymity review process. Reviewers will be asked to honor the double-anonymity review process as much as possible (i.e., any author having further questions on double-anonymity reviewing is encouraged to contact the track’s co-chairs by e-mail. Any submission not complying with the double-anonymity review process will be desk-rejected. Further advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-anonymity review process can be found on the Q&A page.
Use of Generative AI in Submissions
By submitting to the ICST Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results 2025 Track, authors acknowledge that they conform to the authorship policy of the IEEE, submission policy of the IEEE: “The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text.” - IEEE”
Accepted Papers
After acceptance, the list of paper authors can not be changed under any circumstances, and the list of authors on camera-ready papers must be identical to those on submitted papers. After acceptance, paper titles can not be changed except by permission of the Track Chairs, and only then when referees recommend a change for clarity or accuracy with paper content.
Questions and Comments
If you have further questions, please contact the PC chairs at dipenta@unisannio.it and catia.trubiani@gssi.it.
Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission: TBA
- Paper Submission: TBA
- Acceptance Notification: TBA
