This workshop welcomes research on three key areas: AI for Software Engineering, Software Sustainability, and Human Aspects in Software Engineering, with a particular focus on expert systems. However, contributions from other domains of application are also welcome. NEXT-SOFT provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss innovations, challenges, and best practices shaping the future of software development.

TOPICS

List of topics of interest, but are not limited to the following:

AI for Software Engineering

• Automation of software engineering tasks using large language models and foundation models

• AI-enabled recommender systems for software development, testing, and operations

• Human-centered and collaborative AI for software engineering

• Trustworthy, responsible, and sustainable AI for software engineering

• Evaluation and measurement of AI effectiveness beyond traditional accuracy-based metrics

Software Architecture and Design

• Measurement and assessment of software architecture and design quality

• Architecture quality attributes and trade-off analysis

• Distributed, cloud-native, and microservice-based architectures

• Architecture recovery, refactoring, and technical debt management

• Adaptive, evolvable, and self-adaptive software architectures

Software Testing and Analysis

• Automated and continuous software testing techniques

• AI-driven, search-based, and intelligent testing approaches

• Testing and analysis of non-functional properties

• Program analysis, debugging, and fault localization

• Program repair, validation, and verification techniques

Other Areas of Software Engineering

• DevOps, CI/CD, and continuous engineering practices

• Software evolution, maintenance, and API evolution

• Mining software repositories and software analytics

• Requirements engineering and model-driven engineering

• Human and social aspects of software engineering