The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is an annual academic conference in software engineering. The conference has also been held under the name ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) when organized jointly with the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC).
According to the official conference website, FSE and ESEC/FSE were formally merged in 2017 into a single annual conference series with one steering committee. Since 2024, the official name of the series has been ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering. Conference proceedings are published by ACM and indexed by DBLP.
History
The FSE series began with FSE-1 in Los Angeles, United States, in 1993. The related European Software Engineering Conference began earlier, with ESEC 1987 in Strasbourg, France.
Relationship between FSE and ESEC
FSE and ESEC originated as related but distinct conference series in software engineering. FSE was associated with the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, while ESEC was the European Software Engineering Conference. In several years, the two communities organized a joint event under the name ESEC/FSE, formally the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering.
Before 2017, ESEC/FSE was held every two years and alternated with SIGSOFT FSE. According to ACM SIGSOFT, FSE and ESEC/FSE officially merged in 2017 into a single annual conference with one steering committee. The official FSE website similarly states that the merger formalized a practice that had already been informally adopted in previous years.
From 2017 to 2023, the annual conference was generally held under the ESEC/FSE name. Since 2024, the official name of the annual conference series has been the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, abbreviated FSE. DBLP lists the European Software Engineering Conference as discontinued as of 2023, with FSE as its successor from 2024 onward.
Organization
The FSE Steering Committee is responsible for guiding the conference series, including long-term policies, conference scope, selection of officers, location policies, reviewing standards, and scientific criteria.
Awards
In 2018, the FSE Steering Committee introduced a Test of Time Award. The award is given annually to recognize influential papers published ten years earlier in the conference series.
Rankings and indexing
FSE is indexed by DBLP as a software engineering conference series. In the ICORE/CORE conference rankings, FSE is listed as an A* conference in the software engineering field.
Editions
The following table lists previous FSE, ESEC/FSE, and ESEC editions according to the official FSE past-events page and DBLP records.
+ Previous editions Year Edition Location Series 2028 FSE 2028 Milan, Italy FSE 2027 FSE 2027 Shenzhen, China 2026 FSE 2026 Montreal, Canada 2025 FSE 2025 Trondheim, Norway 2024 FSE 2024 Porto de Galinhas, Brazil 2023 ESEC/FSE 2023 San Francisco, United States ESEC/FSE 2022 ESEC/FSE 2022 Singapore 2021 ESEC/FSE 2021 Athens, Greece 2020 ESEC/FSE 2020 Sacramento, California, United States 2019 ESEC/FSE 2019 Tallinn, Estonia 2018 ESEC/FSE 2018 Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States 2017 ESEC 2017 / FSE-25 Paderborn, Germany 2016 FSE-24 Seattle, Washington, United States FSE 2015 ESEC 2015 / FSE-23 Bergamo, Italy ESEC/FSE 2014 FSE-22 Hong Kong, China FSE 2013 ESEC 2013 / FSE-21 Saint Petersburg, Russia ESEC/FSE 2012 FSE-20 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States FSE 2011 ESEC 2011 / FSE-19 Szeged, Hungary ESEC/FSE 2010 FSE-18 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States FSE 2009 ESEC 2009 / FSE-17 Amsterdam, Netherlands ESEC/FSE 2008 FSE-16 Atlanta, Georgia, United States FSE 2007 ESEC 2007 / FSE-15 Dubrovnik, Croatia ESEC/FSE 2006 FSE-14 Portland, Oregon, United States FSE 2005 ESEC 2005 / FSE-13 Lisbon, Portugal ESEC/FSE 2004 FSE-12 Newport Beach, California, United States FSE 2003 ESEC 2003 / FSE-11 Helsinki, Finland ESEC/FSE 2002 FSE-10 Charleston, South Carolina, United States FSE 2001 ESEC 2001 / FSE-9 Vienna, Austria ESEC/FSE 2000 FSE-8 San Diego, California, United States FSE 1999 ESEC 1999 / FSE-7 Toulouse, France ESEC/FSE 1998 FSE-6 / ISAW-3 Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States FSE 1997 ESEC 1997 / FSE-5 Zurich, Switzerland ESEC/FSE 1996 FSE-4 / ISAW-2 San Francisco, California, United States FSE 1995 FSE-3 Washington, D.C., United States ESEC 1995 Sitges, Spain ESEC 1994 FSE-2 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States FSE 1993 FSE-1 Los Angeles, California, United States ESEC 1993 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany ESEC 1991 ESEC 1991 Milan, Italy 1989 ESEC 1989 Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom 1987 ESEC 1987 Strasbourg, France
See also
Software engineering Association for Computing Machinery ACM SIGSOFT International Conference on Software Engineering International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
References
External links
FSE at DBLP ESEC at DBLP FSE at the ACM Digital Library