SE2026 continues the successful format of the last few years for its Scientific Program. All talks constitute significant contributions to research that were accepted or published within the last two years at renowned international conferences or leading journals on software engineering.

The goal of the Scientific Program is to stimulate scientific discourse within the German-speaking software engineering community and to increase the impact of already published work and findings.

The Scientific Program takes place on Wednesday, 25^th - Friday, 27^th February 2026 in the  Wankdorf Stadium.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline for scientific contributions: 26^th October 2025 ( AoE)
• Notifications: 28^th November 2025
• Final version: 10^th December 2025 ( AoE)

Program

Call for Scientific Contributions

The Scientific Program will again consist of presentations of articles already accepted (or published) in international journals and conferences. In this way, we offer a “Best of” of the publications by research groups in the German-speaking area, which contributes to the scientific discourse and increases the visibility of these contributions.

Submissions for the Scientific Program consist of two parts, which must be combined into a single PDF using the  LNI Template and submitted via  EasyChair:

1. Summary of the contribution, with a maximum length of two pages, in LNI format (in German or English). The summary must refer to an original contribution published in a first-class international conference or journal in the field of software engineering (e.g., ASE, EMSE, FSE, ICSE, ISSTA, MODELS, TOSEM, TSE). The summary should provide a concise overview of the contribution, clearly describe its relevance to software engineering, and explain its impact on the state of the art. Additionally, the exact name of the conference or journal and the year of publication must be stated.

   Only proposals for peer-reviewed technical papers that were accepted in full length at the respective main conference (or journal) and have not yet been presented at SE will be accepted. The following are not eligible for this call: short papers, invited papers, tool demonstrations, contributions to doctoral symposia, “New Idea” tracks, co-located events, workshops, or similar formats.

2. PDF full text of the contribution mentioned in (1.). The contribution must have been published or accepted for publication after 1^st January 2024. The presenter must be a (co-)author of the contribution. They may also present the broader project context along with the research results.

The summaries of accepted contributions will be included in the purely digital conference proceedings of SE2026.

Submission

•  EasyChair SE2026
•  LNI Template

Selection

Submissions will be selected by the program committee. We use a two-stage process: First, committee members filter out submissions that are entirely unsuitable or fundamentally flawed. The remaining submissions are then evaluated based on their relevance to software engineering topics. They are ranked, among other criteria, according to the quality of the original conference or journal in which the work appeared.

To support this process, the work and related data should be openly accessible - e.g., via Zenodo, Figshare, or ArXiv. If data cannot be made available (e.g., due to confidentiality agreements or data protection concerns), a justification must be provided. Presentation slots will then be allocated according to this ranking.

Program Co-Chairs

•  Leen Lambers, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (DE)
•  Michael Pradel, University of Stuttgart (DE)

Program Committee

•  Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich (DE)
•  Michael Felderer, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (DE)
•  Regina Hebig, University of Rostock (DE)
•  Paula Herber, University of Münster (DE)
•  Ben Hermann, TU Dortmund (DE)
•  Malte Lochau, University of Siegen (DE)
•  Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg (DE)
•  Judith Michael, University of Regensburg (DE)
•  Yannic Noller, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) (DE)
•  Rick Rabiser, Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) (AT)
•  Guido Salvaneschi, University of St. Gallen (CH)
•  Janet Siegmund, TU Chemnitz (DE)
•  Gabriele Taentzer, University of Marburg (DE)
•  Thomas Thüm, TU Braunschweig (DE)