The Artifact Evaluation process is a service provided by the community to help authors of accepted papers provide more substantial supplements to their papers so that future researchers can more effectively build on and compare with previous work. ISSTA invites submissions for artifact evaluation. Research artifacts denote digital objects that were either created by the authors of a research article to be used as part of their study or generated by their experiments.
The artifact evaluation (AE) process aims to foster reproducibility and reusability. Reproducibility refers to researchers or practitioners being able to validate the paper’s results using the provided artifact. Reusability means that researchers can extend or use the artifact in a different context or for a different use case. Overall, the artifact evaluation process allows our field to progress by incentivizing and supporting authors to make their artifacts openly available and improve their quality. Furthermore, a formal artifact evaluation documents the outstanding nature of the published research through recognizable and recognized badges stamped directly on the published papers. Therefore, it is common to offer the authors of accepted papers at high-quality conferences, such as ISSTA, an artifact evaluation service before publication.
More details can be found here: ACM guidelines on Artifact Review and Badging Version 1.1.
Call for Artifacts
Call for AEC Self-Nominations
We are looking for motivated community members to join the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) for ISSTA 2026. Candidates should ideally already have experience with creating, using, or evaluating research artifacts. The expected review workload is 3-5 artifacts of accepted ISSTA 2026 papers over July and early August. In case you are interested in joining the AEC, please sign up here: https://forms.gle/4N65ueMLKFRjsUmy8
