Call for Papers
The Tools and Datasets Track of MOBILESoft 2026 welcomes high-quality submissions describing reusable tools and datasets that advance research and practice in mobile software engineering.
This track aims to recognize and promote novel, practical, and reusable contributions that help software architects, designers, engineers, and researchers to accelerate their workflows, reproduce previous results, and enable new discoveries in the mobile computing domain.
Both tools and datasets may range from early-stage prototypes to in-house or pre-commercial products.
We particularly welcome submissions that support or extend the MOBILESoft research topics, including mobile app development, testing, analysis, user experience, performance, security, energy efficiency, and software maintenance.
Accepted papers will be presented through a short oral presentation followed by a live demonstration or dataset showcase session at the conference.
Important Dates (AoE)
- Submission Deadline: Friday, November 28, 2025
- Notification of Acceptance: TBA
- Camera-Ready Deadline: TBA
Types of Contributions
Tool Demo Showcase
Submissions in this category are expected to include:
- A description of the tool, including background, motivation, novelty, overall architecture, detailed design, and any preliminary evaluation results.
- A discussion of how to use the tool in practice, including installation steps and example data or scenarios.
- Installation instructions and sample inputs/outputs enabling reviewers to run the tool.
- References to previous papers where the tool has been used or evaluated (if applicable).
- Ideas for future reusability, improvements, and limitations of the tool.
Dataset Showcase
Submissions in this category are expected to include:
- A clear description of the data source and methodology used to gather or generate the data (including provenance and any tools used).
- A description of the data storage and schema, where applicable.
- If the data has already been used, details of how it has been applied, including relevant references.
- A statement of originality and comparison to similar existing datasets.
- Guidance on how to use the dataset in practice, including research questions that it could help answer.
- Ideas for future extensions or improvements.
- A discussion of any limitations or challenges in collecting or using the data.
Formatting and Submission Instructions
Submissions to the Tools and Datasets Track must conform to the official ACM Primary Article Template, using the sigconf and review options.
LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble:
\documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}
\acmConference[MOBILESoft’26]{The 13th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2026)}{12–18 April 2026}{Rio de Janeiro, Brazil}
All submissions to the Tool Demo and Dataset track must not exceed 4 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, appendices, etc. An extra page is allowed only for references. All submissions must be in PDF. The page limit is strict, and it will not be possible to purchase additional pages at any point in the process (including after the paper is accepted). Papers that do not conform to these guidelines will be desk-rejected before the review process.
Submissions may be made through HotCRP at:
https://tools-datasets-mobilesoft-2026.hotcrp.com/
The Tool Demo and Dataset track at MOBILESoft 2026 will adopt a double-anonymous review process.
No submitted paper may reveal its authors’ identities.
The authors must make every effort to honor the double-anonymous review process; reviewers will be asked to honor the double-anonymous review process as much as possible.
Any author having further questions on double-blind reviewing is encouraged to contact the track’s program co-chairs by email.
Any submission that does not comply with the double-blind review process will be desk-rejected.
Further advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-blind review process can be found on the ICSE Q&A page:
https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2026/icse-2026-submitting-to-icse2026–q-a
Review and Evaluation Criteria
Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the program committee.
The main evaluation criteria include:
- Value, usefulness, and reusability of the tools and/or datasets
- Quality of the presentation
- Clarity of relation with related work and its relevance to mining software repositories
- Availability of tools and/or datasets
Tools and Datasets Availability
To promote replicability and disseminate advances achieved with the tools and datasets, we strongly encourage the tools and datasets to be publicly available for download and use — ideally distributed under an open-source license.
The tool/dataset should be made available at the time of submission of the paper for review, but will be considered confidential until publication.
Whenever the tool and/or dataset are not made publicly available, the paper must include a clear explanation for why this was not possible.
The tool/dataset should include detailed instructions about:
- How to set up the environment (e.g.,
requirements.txt) - How to use the tool/dataset (e.g., a running example, how to import the data, or how to access the data once imported)
| Fri 28 Nov 2025new Submission Deadline |
