VISSOFT 2026 (14th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization)

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VISSOFT 2026: 14th - 15th September 2026, Benevento, Italy.

VISSOFT 2026

New!: Visions and reflections

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Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from areas such as information visualization, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and data science, and applying these in the software engineering domain. 

The VISSOFT conference is primarily a venue for publishing and discussing research on software visualization. Consequently, VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and data science to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization.

VISSOFT, co-located with ICSME, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the visualization of:

• Software Engineering data, which may include (but is not limited to) source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks (like StackOverflow and GitHub), mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data.
• Software development activities, which may include design, requirements engineering, software maintenance, program comprehension, software performance, software testing, and debugging.
• Software analytical approaches based on data science concepts.
• Empirical evaluations of software visualizations, including eye-tracking studies.
• Tools, techniques, and frameworks that include visual programming languages.
• Interactive and immersive techniques and algorithms related to software development
• Integrating tools with development environments.
• Industrial experience with using software visualization.
• Techniques used in Software Engineering Education.
• Application of trendy techniques such as Machine Learning and AI-assisted models (Large Language Models, Large Multi-Modal Models with Software).
• Application of techniques such as Augmented and Virtual Reality, and Sonification, to software engineering activities.

We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to full technical papers, VISSOFT features both a New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Track and a Tools Track, which present ideas still under development or demonstrate the functionality of newly developed tools. This year, we also include the Visualization Challenge, which aims to catalyze research efforts around a shared software engineering dataset. Additionally, we introduce a new Visions and Reflections Track, welcoming forward-looking visions and reflective perspectives that can shape the future of software visualization research. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library.

Refer to Website details: 

https://vissoft.io/2026/submission.html

Important For Main Track Dates (23:59:59 AoE)

Paper Abstract: June 6, 2026

Paper Submission: June 13, 2026

Notification: July 26, 2026