Scope of TSE

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) is an archival journal published bimonthly. We are interested in well-defined theoretical results and empirical studies that have potential impact on the construction, analysis, or management of software. The scope of this Transactions ranges from the mechanisms through the development of principles to the application of those principles to specific environments. Since the journal is archival, it is assumed that the ideas presented are important, have been well analyzed, and/or empirically validated and are of value to the software engineering research or practitioner community. Specific topic areas include: a) development and maintenance methods and models, e.g., techniques and principles for the specification, design, and implementation of software systems, including notations and process models; b) assessment methods, e.g., software tests and validation, reliability models, test and diagnosis procedures, software redundancy and design for error control, and the measurements and evaluation of various aspects of the process and product; c) software project management, e.g., productivity factors, cost models, schedule and organizational issues, standards; d) tools and environments, e.g., specific tools, integrated tool environments including the associated architectures, databases, and parallel and distributed processing issues; e) system issues, e.g., hardware-software trade-off; and f) state-of-the-art surveys that provide a synthesis and comprehensive review of the historical development of one particular area of interest.

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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Bashar Nuseibeh - Lero and The Open University

Associate Editors

Marsha Chechik - University of Toronto

Betty Cheng - Michigan State University

Siobhán Clarke - Trinity College Dublin

Daniela Damian - University of Victoria

Robert DeLine - Microsoft

Harald C. Gall - University of Zurich

Carlo Ghezzi - Politecnico Milano

Dimitra Giannakopoulou - NASA Ames Research Center

John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology

Patrick Heymans - University of Namur

Paola Inverardi - University of L'Aquila

Michael Jackson - Open University

Marta Kwiatkowska - University of Oxford

Bev Littlewood - City University, London

Nenad Medvidovic - University of Southern California

Tim Menzies - University of West Virginia

Audris Mockus - Avaya Labs

Gaul Murphy - University of British Columbia

David Parnas†

Mauro Pezze - University of Lugano and University of Milano Bicocca

Gian Pietro Picco - University of Trento

Martin Robillard - McGill University

Gregg Rothermel - University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Wolfram Schulte - Microsoft Research Labs

Dag Sjøberg - University of Oslo

Margaret-Anne Storey - University of Victoria

Walter F. Tichy - University of Karlsuhe

Frank Tip - IBM Research

Paolo Tonella - Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Laurie Williams - North Carolina State University

Murray Woodside - Carleton University

† Emeritus Associate Editor