Mission Statement

The ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering seeks to improve our ability to engineer software by stimulating interaction among practitioners, researchers, and educators; by fostering the professional development of software engineers; and by representing software engineers to professional, legal, and political entities.

SIGSOFT Events

SIGSOFT sponsors some very popular events in the area of Software Engineering. An up to date list of those events can be found here. Consult the ACM Calendar of Events for more information about dates and deadlines. More information for event organizers that are interested in cooperating with SIGSOFT can be found here.

News

• A Chronology of SIGSOFT: its Officers, Conferences, Awards, and more: Tao Xie has recently begun an excellent history of ACM SIGSOFT, and the field of software engineering in general. This chronology is available on the SIGSOFT history wiki, and is presented in a wiki format so that members of the community can help keep the chronology current. Thanks for all your hard work Tao!
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• Andreas Zeller's Impact Award Keynote: Andreas Zeller, recipient of the 2009 ACM SIGSOFT Impact Award for his paper, "Yesterday My Program Worked. Today, it Does Not. Why?", recently posted a recording of his award keynote, which was given at ESEC/FSE 2009. You can watch the keynote in its entirety.
  2009-11-03