29^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)

28 May 2021 - 29 May 2021 Madrid, Spain

Scope & Topics

The 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) is the premier venue for work in the area of program comprehension. It encompasses both human activities for comprehending the software and technologies for supporting such comprehension. ICPC 2021 promises to provide a quality forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present and to discuss state-of-the-art results and best practices in the field of program comprehension.

Topics of Interest :

• Tool support for program comprehension
• Novel visualization techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and analyzing
• Novel text summarisation techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and analyzing
• Cognitive theories for program comprehension, including experiments, empirical studies, and case studies
• Collaborative software engineering practices for program comprehension
• Individual, collaborative, distributed, and global program comprehension
• Comprehension of specific types of software systems, such as open/closed source, mobile applications
• Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and specific lifecycle activities, such as: maintenance, evolution, re-engineering, migration, security, auditing, and testing
• Comprehension of software artifacts ranging from requirements documents to test cases and crash logs; from API documentation to models, meta-models and model transformation; and from Stack Overflow questions & answers
• Human aspects in program comprehension

Paper Submission

Submissions should not disclose the identity of the authors to comply with the double-blind review process employed by ICPC. The authors’ names must be omitted from the submissions and references to their prior work should be in the third person. Further advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-blind review process are available on the Q & A of ICSE 2021.

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