ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Author Guidelines
Paper Preparation
Paper Relevance
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology is a publication for original and significant results in all areas of software engineering research. The software systems of interest for this journal are charactered in most cases by a scale requiring development by teams, not individuals. They should be sufficiently complex and long-lived to justify investment in languages, methods, and tools that support specification, design, implementation, validation, documentation, maintenance, reengineering, and other related activities. Submitted papers should address important research topics; the results described must be reproducible, extensible, scalable, and have practical relevance.
Experience reports on the use of advanced software engineering techniques are also welcome. To be publishable, however, they must provide thoughtful insights about the development world or the application of a technology, that result in the identification of new important challenges for software engineering research.
The scope of TOSEM includes models, languages, methods, mechanisms, and tools for the elaboration, evaluation, and evolution of products and processes all along the software lifecycle, from requirements specification to software maintenance. Formal and experimental approaches are both in the scope of TOSEM. Examples of topics include:
Requirements engineering: acquisition, modelling, specification, analysis, and prototyping;
Design engineering: software architectures, specification, refinement, design methods, strategies, and styles; documentation of design rationales;
Software testing, analysis and verification: algorithms, techniques and processes for assuring or assessing software with respect to functional or non-functional requirements;
Configuration management: version control and system evolution;
Software understanding and reengineering;
Reuse: techniques for reusing components such as specifications, designs, or code, and for making such products reusable;
Software process engineering: modeling, analysis, customization, enactment, evolution;
Software engineering environments: organization, tool integration and interoperability; object management, language-directed tools, knowledge-based tools, dedicated tools; software visualization;
Measurement, metrics, estimation methods, and empirical studies;
Human-Software interaction;
Collaborative software engineering;
Special software engineering techniques for: distributed systems, real-time systems, safety-critical systems, secure systems, multimedia systems, and mobile computing;
Adaptation of techniques from programming languages, artificial intelligence, or databases;
Domain-specific software engineering techniques.
Papers submitted are judged primarily on originality, significance, technical soundness and quality of presentation. Contributions should conform to generally accepted practices for scientific papers with respect to organization, clarity and style.
Theoretical or methodological papers should clearly show how the results presented may contribute to software engineering practice. Papers on specific systems should concentrate on technical and architectural issues rather than providing feature-by-feature descriptions. Experimental papers should describe the experimental method used and interpret the results in terms of practice. All papers should clearly indicate what is new and significant about the work presented and how it compares with related work. Every claim must be substantiated through detailed arguments. Technical precision and conciseness are other important requirements.
ACM Policies on Authorship
According to the ACM Policy on Authorship, anyone listed as an Author on an ACM paper must meet all the following criteria:
they have made substantial intellectual contributions to some components of the original work described in the paper; and
they have participated in drafting and/or revision of the paper; and they are aware that the paper has been submitted for publication; and
they agree to be held accountable for any issues relating to correctness or integrity of the work.
Other contributors may be acknowledged at the end of the paper, before the bibliography, with explicitly described roles, preferably using the roles found in the CASRAI Contributor Roles Taxonomy.
ACM Policies on Plagiarism and Prior Publication
All authors are responsible for adhering to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism, and incidents of plagiarism are handled according to that policy. The contact author for each submission is asked to confirm the authors' understanding of this policy at the time of submission.
ACM's Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions states that it is ACM policy to be the sole, original publisher of articles. Manuscripts that have been submitted simultaneously to other magazines, journals or to conferences, symposia, or workshops without the prior written consent of the Editor-in-Chief will be rejected outright and will not be reconsidered. Widely disseminated conference proceedings and newsletters are a form of publication, although they are usually only semi-archival and often not fully refereed. Publication of expanded versions of papers that have been disseminated via proceedings or newsletters is permitted only if the Editor-in-Chief judges that (a) the revision contains significant amplification or clarification of the original material or (b) there is a significant additional benefit to be gained from journal publication. In either case, any prior appearance should be noted on the title page of the paper. The differences between the submission and the original version should be made explicit both in the submission letter and in the paper. A conference chairperson can arrange with the Editor-in-Chief to publish selected papers from conferences, symposia, and workshops, after suitable reviewing. The papers must meet the editorial requirements for research articles. Acknowledgment of the originating conference will appear as a credit when the paper is published in TOSEM.
Manuscript Specifications
Extremely long submissions -- as a general rule, those that exceed approximately 11,000 words -- may be returned without review at the discretion of the editor-in-chief. If placed into the review process, such submissions are not guaranteed review or publication in a timely fashion.
Submissions must be made electronically as described below and must be prepared using ACM guidelines and templates for electronic submission.
Computing Classification System
An important aspect of preparing your paper for publication by ACM Press is to provide the proper indexing and retrieval information from the ACM Computing Classification System (CCS). This is beneficial to you because accurate categorization provides the reader with quick content reference, facilitating the search for related literature, as well as searches for your work in ACM's Digital Library and on other online resources.
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