CALL FOR PAPERS - EXPERIENCE REPORTS TRACK
SBQS 2024: The 23rd Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality
November 5th to 8th, 2024, Salvador, BA, Brazil
THE SBQS
The Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS) is the main Brazilian forum dedicated to Software Quality. Software Quality is manifested in two complementary and dependent perspectives: Process Quality and Product Quality. With the current heavy reliance on software and aggregated services, research into software quality and its application in products and services is both a necessity and a differential to provide value to organizations and their businesses.
Since its creation, the SBQS has excelled in the exchange of experiences between academia and industry, where researchers, educators, and the Software Quality and Software Engineering practice community meet to present and discuss ideas, experiences, and discoveries with a view to the potential to positively influence the software industry.
Aim and Scope
The Experience Reports Track is mainly interested in contributions that are based on practical cases, where approaches, models, techniques, tools, etc. that support Software Quality have been used in companies, generating new knowledge after its evaluation. Its main purpose is to bring to the SBQS audience experiences that can be discussed and implemented by other companies and/or considered relevant knowledge for future research on Software Quality.
The report should describe in detail the experience, the context in which it took place, and discuss the results and how they were achieved. When applicable, it should also discuss lessons learned, such as what worked and what has not worked, and why, among others. Scientific rigor in the description is desired, but not mandatory.
Topics of Interest
Submissions on all topics related to Software Quality are welcome. Topics of interest to the track include (but are not limited to):
- High Maturity and Statistical Process Control
- Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Software Quality
- Acquisition of Software Products
- Acquisition of IT Services
- Process Evaluation
- Product Rating
- Requirements Engineering
- Continuous Software Engineering
- Ethics and Software Quality
- Human Factors and Social Aspects in Software Quality
- Quality Assurance of IT Services
- Software Quality Assurance
- Configuration Management
- Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning
- Portfolio and Project Management
- People Management
- Software Process Lines
- Software Product Lines
- Software Product Management
- Software Maintenance and Evolution
- Software Measurement
- IT Service Process Improvement
- Software Process Improvement
- Agile Software Development
- Process Modeling
- Models and Standards of Capacity and Maturity
- Software Processes, Methods, and Tools
- Design and Integration of Software and IT Services
- Quality of Software applied to IT Services
- Services and Software Reuse
- Sustainability in Software Quality
- Usability and User Experience
- Value in Software Quality
- Verification, Validation, and Testing
Evaluation Criteria
Papers in this track will be evaluated considering:
- Adherence: the paper must describe an experience report that occurred in the industry (e.g, Startups, Software development companies, R&D projects);
- Originality: the paper needs to present an original experience not previously published;
- Usefulness for industry: degree of potential usefulness for other companies;
- Replicability: the paper needs to detail the context of the experience report (e.g., characteristics of both company and software development project) to allow the replication of the experience in other companies;
- Lessons learned: the paper needs to highlight the lessons learned in the report, as well as the whole rationale of decision-making that may be relevant to highlight the aggregated value of the work;
- Technical soundness: coherence and consistency in the description and use of Software Quality concepts; and
- Presentation: refers to the quality of the paper, including text cohesion, spelling, formatting, and readable figures and tables.
Important Dates
- Paper registration (abstract submission): July 3rd, 2024 - July 22, 2024 - July 29, 2024 (Hard deadline)
- Paper submission: July 10th, 2024 - July 26, 2024 - August 02, 2024 (Hard deadline)
- First notification: September 18th, 2024 - September 04th, 2024
- Rebuttal period: September 18th to September 24th, 2024 - September 04th to September 10th, 2024
- Second notification: September 29th, 2024 - September 20th, 2024
- Camera-ready version: October 6th, 2024
Manuscript Preparation and Submission
Authors must carefully read the Manuscript Preparation and Submission instructions.
Important points for the Experience Reports Track:
- Submissions will be rejected without review if (1) they do not comply with all submission instructions presented in this call for papers, (2) they are outside the scope of the SBQS 2024 Experience Reports Track, or (3) they have been submitted or published in any other forum (conference or journal).
- All submissions will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. If the submission is accepted, the authors must consider the reviewers’ comments to prepare the final version of the paper.
- The SBQS 2024 Experience Reports Track adopts a double-anonymous review process (see Anonymization topic in Manuscript Preparation and Submission instructions.
In order to exercise impartial judgment, the track chairs cannot submit to the same tracks they organize. However, the program committee members are allowed to submit.
Submission link: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4632
The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of the authors must register to SBQS, including the respective publication fee(s), to present it in person during the event, and that authors must provide extra files required by the organization committee. Additionally, to speed up the publication process, authors of the accepted papers must fill in some forms requested by the proceedings chair on specific dates.
Best Paper Award
SBQS rewards the best article of each track every year. The Experience Reports Track Chairs and SBQS Steering Committee will choose the winning paper in this track from the Program Committee reviews. The award-winning articles are announced at the event.
Authors of the best papers are invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD).
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Edna Dias Canedo (UNB)
Johnny Marques (ITA)
SBQS Steering Committee
Adriano Bessa Albuquerque (UNIFOR)
Davi Viana (UFMA)
Edna Dias Canedo (UnB)
Gleison Santos (UNIRIO)
Ivan Machado (UFBA)
Monalessa Perini Barcellos (UFES)
Rodrigo Santos (UNIRIO)
Sheila Reinehr (PUCPR)
Tayana Conte (UFAM)
Proceedings Chair
(to be defined)
Program Committee
Adenilso Simao (ICMC-USP)
Adriana Lopes (UFAM)
Adriano Albuquerque (UNIFOR -Universidade de Fortaleza)
Alcemir Santos (Universidade Estadual do Piauí - UESPI)
Alessandra Dutra (UCRS - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do RS)
Alexandre Vasconcelos (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
Ana Carolina Oran (Universidade Federal do Amazonas)
Ana Regina Rocha (COPPE/UFRJ)
Anderson Belgamo (Instituto Federal de São Paulo - Campus Piracicaba)
André Luís Menolli (Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná - UENP)
Anna Beatriz Marques (Universidade Federal do Ceará)
Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi (Universidade Federal de São Carlos)
Awdren Fontão (Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul)
Carla Bezerra (Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC)
Crescencio Lima (Federal Institute of Bahia)
Daniel Lucrédio (UFSCar - Universidade Federal de São Carlos)
Daniel Porto (Universidade de Brasília)
Davi Viana (Universidade Federal do Maranhão)
Debora Paiva (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul)
Edna Dias Canedo (Universidade de Brasília (UNB))
Edson OliveiraJr (Universidade Estadual de Maringá)
Elaine Venson (Universidade de Brasília (UNB))
Everton Alves (Federal University of Campina Grande)
Fabiana Freitas Mendes (Aalto University)
Fernanda Madeiral (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Glauco Carneiro (Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS))
Gleison Santos (Unirio)
Heitor Costa (Federal University of Lavras)
Henrique Sousa (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Hudson Borges (UFMS)
Ismayle Sousa Santos (Universidade Estadual do Ceará)
Ivan Machado (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Johnny Marques (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica 0)
José Maldonado (SSC/ICMC-USP/ São Carlos)
Leonardo Medeiros (Instituto Federal de Alagoas)
Marcelo Yamaguti (PUCRS)
Monalessa Perini Barcellos (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo)
Monica Anastassiu (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Natália Chaves Lessa (IM/UFRRJ)
Patricia Matsubara (UFMS)
Paulo Parreira Júnior (Universidade Federal de Lavras)
Paulo Sérgio Santos (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro)
Rafael de Mello (UFRJ)
Rafael Prikladnicki (PUCRS)
Regina Albuquerque (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná)
Regina Braga (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)
Renato Novais (IFBA - Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia)
Rita Suzana Pitangueira Maciel (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Rodrigo Reis (UFPA)
Rodrigo Santos (UNIRIO)
Sandro Ronaldo Bezerra Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Pará)
Sergio Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Goiás - UFG)
Sheila Reinehr (Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná)
Suzana Sampaio (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco)
Tadeu Classe (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Thelma Colanzi (Universidade Estadual de Maringá)
Uirá Kulesza (UFRN - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)
Valéria Lelli (Universidade Federal do Ceará)
Vinicius Garcia (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
Walter Nakamura (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná)
