Tool DemonstrationsSPLASH/ISSTA 2026

The SRC, Tools, and Posters tracks are jointly organized for ISSTA/SPLASH 2026. All three tracks share the same deadlines.

The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2026 and the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) 2026 will be co-located. As part of this joint event, we invite submissions to the Tool Demonstration Track, jointly organized across ISSTA and SPLASH.

The Tool Demonstration Track serves as a venue for publishing and presenting advances in software testing, analysis, and programming languages tools that aid either practice, research, or both. Submissions may describe early prototypes of tools, mature tools, and everything in between. To help disseminate tools to the community, we encourage submissions describing previously unpublished tools, whose underlying techniques may have already been published.

Highlighting scientific contributions through concrete artifacts is a critical supplement to traditional research papers. A demonstration provides the opportunity to communicate how a scientific approach has been implemented or how a hypothesis has been assessed, including implementation and usage details, data models, representations, and APIs. Authors of regular research papers at ISSTA and SPLASH, or other SE conferences e.g., ICSE, ESEC/FSE, or ASE are, thus, also encouraged to submit an accompanying tool demonstration paper. Submissions must be original; however, substantial improvements or extensions to existing tools are encouraged. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available under an open-source license.

Tool demonstration papers must not be concurrently under review at any other SPLASH/ISSTA’26 tracks or any external venue.

Accepted papers will be included in the SPLASH Companion proceedings and become available in the ACM Digital Library.

Accepted Papers

The submission must communicate clearly the following information:

• The tool’s envisioned users
  • The software testing, analysis challenge(s) the tool addresses
  • How to use the tool
  • Either results of conducted validation studies or the design of planned studies
  • All papers must include a short section titled “Tool Availability” which should include the following information:
    1. A URL for downloading or accessing the latest version of the tool (e.g., a GitHub repository or a cloud-based web service). Please also briefly mention what level of documentation is available for using and/or extending the tool.
    2. A YouTube link demonstrating the use of the tool as of the current version.
    3. An archived version of the tool at the time of submission (e.g., a DOI for a ZIP file hosted at Zenodo), if appropriate. If your tool is not freely available on the Internet, the “Tool Availability” section must contain a paragraph explaining who can access the tool and how they can do so (e.g., by request, purchase, or if access is restricted to certain groups).

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

• The relevance of the proposed tool demonstration to the ISSTA audience
  • The technical soundness of the demonstrated tool
  • The originality of the underlying ideas
  • The quality of the paper’s presentation
  • The potential applications and usefulness of the tool
  • The comparison to the related work

Submissions must conform to the ACM Conference Format. A tool demonstration submission may not exceed four pages, including all text, figures, and links to artifact availability (see above). Up to one additional page may be used for references. The submission should be double-column, and authors using LaTeX should use the sample-sigconf.tex file (found in the samples folder of the acmart package). The paper submission must be in PDF. The Tool Demonstration track will be using the single-blind reviewing model, so the submitted PDFs should identify the authors.

Submit papers via HotCRP here.