Instructions for Manuscript Preparation and Submission 

All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the style format required by each track:

• Papers submitted to the Research, Experience Reports, Software Quality Education tracks, and the CTDQS and CTICQS events must follow the two-column ACM format for conferences (sigconf). 
• Papers submitted to WTDQS must follow the SBC paper format.

Papers submitted to SBQS may or may not identify the authors, depending on the anonymization policy of each track or parallel event, as follows. 

• Papers submitted to the Research Papers, Experience Reports, and Software Quality Education tracks must not identify the authors and should be prepared for a double-anonymous review process, in which both authors and reviewers remain anonymous.

• Papers submitted to WTDQS, CTDQS, and CTICQS must identify the authors, meaning they should be prepared for a single-anonymous review process.

Instructions for anonymization can be found in the corresponding section below.

Papers should be written in Portuguese or English. Submissions in English are strongly encouraged. 

The symposium proceedings will be indexed online. The event coordination is negotiating to publish the SBQS Proceedings, including all SBQS papers, on the ACM Digital Library. The SBQS Proceedings will also be indexed on the SBC Open Lib (SOL) platform. WTDQS papers will be published only in the SBQS Companion Proceedings on the SBC Open Lib (SOL) platform.

Submissions should be made electronically through the JEMS system, including any additional documents when required.

Papers submitted to the Research, Experience Reports, and Software Quality Education Tracks must be in full conformance with the format instructions, must fit the track scope, and must not have been simultaneously submitted to another forum (scientific event or journal), nor have they been previously published.

Submissions that do not comply with the format guidelines or fall outside the scope of the tracks or parallel events will be rejected without review.

Important: Track and event chairs cannot submit to the same tracks or to the event they organize. The Program Committee members are allowed to submit.  

Rebuttal

The review process for the Research, Experience Reports, and Software Quality Education tracks includes a rebuttal period, during which authors will have access to reviewers' comments. During this time, authors can provide arguments and responses to the comments and questions raised by the reviewers before the final decision on the acceptance or rejection of the paper is made.

Papers with a clear acceptance (i.e. all reviewers decided for paper acceptance) during the 1st review and discussion period will be accepted, and their authors will be notified on the date of the 1st Notification. The authors should ensure that all reviewers' points are observed in the final version.

The authors of the other papers will be invited to participate in the rebuttal phase, when the authors will have access to the reviewers' comments and may present arguments and responses to comments and questions submitted by the reviewers before the final decision to accept or reject the paper. The authors of these papers will be notified on the date of the 2nd Notification.  

Instructions for ACM Format Manuscripts

All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the two-column ACM format for conferences, available in ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. The use of LaTex (sigconf) is strongly recommended. In this case, authors should use the acmart.cls class provided in the template with the conference format enabled in the preamble of the document: \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart} and also apply the ACM-Reference-Format.bst bibliography style provided in the template: \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}.

If authors choose to use the Word format, they should be aware that the two-column version (Interim Template) must be used for submission. However, this is an outdated version. If the paper is accepted, authors will need to transition to the new single-column template (ACM Primary Article Template - Microsoft Word: Mac 2011, Mac 2016 e Windows) and address macro errors during import into the ACM system until the article version is correct and validated (which may involve handling macro errors or changing the article format to LaTex).

Papers should be written in Portuguese or English. Submissions in English are strongly encouraged. Papers in Portuguese must have metadata, title, abstract, and keywords ONLY IN ENGLISH.

Unless the tracks or events specify specific rules, papers should not exceed 10 pages, including all figures, tables, appendices, and acknowledgments. Up to two additional pages can be utilized for references. Additional information can be found on the specific track pages. 

Submissions for the Experience Reports track should be between 5 and 10 pages. 

Instructions for SBC Format Manuscripts (WTDQS)

All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the SBC paper format available at http://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/category/169-templates-para-artigos-e-capitulos-de-livros. Papers submitted to WTDQS must have a mandatory limit of 6 to 8 pages for doctoral works and 4 to 6 pages for master's works.

The paper must be submitted as a PDF file and must comply with the following instructions:

(i) Paper presenting in a clear and objective way the following topics: research context and motivation, problem characterization, research goals and questions, theoretical foundation, research methods (including data collection and analysis techniques), current state of work, related work, proposed solution and evaluation protocol, and expected (scientific and technological) contributions. The topics listed are essential to the paper, but they do not need to be presented in isolated sections or even in the order they were cited above. In the first page, the paper must also include the advisor(s) name(s), course degree (master's or doctoral), starting and finishing (planned) dates, and date of the proposal approval (qualifying exam);

(ii) Explanatory Video of up to 5 minutes to supplement the content of the paper. The student must present the video. The video must be uploaded via YouTube. When uploading the video to the YouTube account, the student must mark it as unlisted so it will be accessible only to those who have the link. The authors should introduce the link at the end of the abstract in the paper.

Papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Moreover, the paper must contain title, author’s identification, affiliation, abstract in English, and abstract in Portuguese. Both abstracts must not exceed 10 lines each and must be presented in the first page of the paper.

Papers in a format other than PDF that exceeds the number of pages, violates formatting and content instructions, or are out of WTDQS scope will be desk rejected.

The papers must be submitted electronically via the JEMS system before the paper submission deadline.

Accepted works at WTDQS will be published in the SBQS Companion Proceedings at the SBC Open Lib Platform.

Further information can be found in the WTDQS Call for Papers.

Double-anonymous Instructions

As mentioned above, some tracks of SBQS adopt a double-anonymous review process. As such, submitted papers must omit any information that would allow their authors to be identified. To this end:

• Authorship information should be omitted (i.e., the paper should not include authors' names and affiliations, as well as other information that would allow authors to be identified, such as university name, project identification, or funding information);
• References to previous work by the authors should be presented in the third person (e.g., use "in the work of Sousa et al." instead of "in our work") or by anonymizing the reference in the references section (e.g., instead of "this work evolves the proposal of Sousa et al.", one can use "this work evolves our previous proposal presented in [ref]", and the reference [ref] can be included as "[ref] Reference omitted due to double-anonymous review process" in the references section);
• If the paper includes links to artifacts related to the work, only repositories or websites that do not allow identification of the authors should be cited. To anonymize GitHub-based repositories, you can use the anonymous service (https://anonymous.4open.science/).

Note that reviewers will not be encouraged to search other sources for references that identify the authors. Searching digital libraries or existing artifacts does not compromise the double-anonymous review process.

If the article is accepted, information omitted in the submitted version should be included in the final version.

When submission anonymization is single, authors must provide their names and affiliations in the submitted file. 

When submission anonymization is optional, if authors choose the single anonymization process, they should provide their names and affiliations in the submitted file. If authors choose the double anonymization process, the submitted work must conceal the authors' identities and follow the double anonymization instructions above. 

Should you have any doubts regarding following the rules of anonymous submission or other inquiries, please feel free to reach out to the Program Committee Chairs of the corresponding track or parallel event.

Code of Conduct for Authors and Use of AI-Assisted Technologies in Papers Submitted to SBQS

We emphasize that authors must adhere to the Code of Conduct for Authors in Publications of SBC (https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/indice/conduta).

Summary 

(*) Up to two additional pages can be used for references.