CALL FOR PAPERS - EXPERIENCE REPORTS TRACK
SBQS 2025: The 24th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality
November 04th to 07th, 2025, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
THE SBQS
The Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS) is the leading Brazilian forum dedicated to Software Quality. Software Quality manifests in two complementary and dependent perspectives: Process and Product. With the heavy reliance on software and aggregated services, research into software quality and its application in products and services is necessary 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 influence the software industry positively.
Aim and Scope
The Experience Reports Track is mainly interested in contributions 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 primary 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 the experience and 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, 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):
- Acquisition of IT Services
- Acquisition of Software Products
- Agile Software Development
- Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Software Quality
- Generative Artificial Intelligence and Software Quality
- Configuration Management
- Continuous Software Engineering
- Design and Integration of Software and IT Services
- Ethics and Software Quality
- High Maturity and Statistical Process Control
- Human Factors and Social Aspects in Software Quality
- IT Service Process Improvement
- Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning
- Models and Standards of Capacity and Maturity
- People Management
- Portfolio and Project Management
- Process Evaluation
- Process Modeling
- Product Rating
- Quality Assurance of IT Services
- Requirements Engineering
- Services and Software Reuse
- Software Maintenance and Evolution
- Software Measurement
- Software Process Improvement
- Software Process Lines
- Software Processes, Methods, and Tools
- Software Product Lines
- Software Product Management
- Software Quality Assurance
- 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 the 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): June 23rd, 2025
- Paper submission: June 30th, 2025
- First notification: September 4th, 2025
- Rebuttal period: September 4th to September 10th, 2025
- Second notification: September 19th, 2025
- Camera-ready version: October 13th, 2025
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 2025 Experience Reports Track, or (3) they have been submitted or published in any other forum (conference or journal).
- At least three program committee members will review all submissions. If the submission is accepted, the authors must consider the reviewers’ comments to prepare the final version of the paper.
- For the SBQS 2025 Experience Reports track, authors have the option of identifying themselves in the submitted article. If authors choose the “single-anonymous review process”, they must present their names and affiliations in the submitted PDF file and there is no need to anonymize supplementary materials that are made available from the article (e.g. study packages). If the authors choose the “double-anonymous review process”, the submitted article (as well as supplementary materials that are made available) must omit the identity of the authors. Both authors' names and affiliations must be omitted. For anonymization, authors should see the topic Anonymization in the Instructions for Manuscript Preparation and Submission
To exercise impartial judgment, the track chairs cannot submit to the same tracks they organize. However, the program committee members are allowed to submit.
Accepting 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.
Submission link on JEMS3: https://jems3.sbc.org.br/events/376
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
Bruno Gadelha (UFAM)
Ivaldir de Farias Junior (UPE)
SBQS Steering Committee
Adriano Bessa Albuquerque (UNIFOR)
Davi Viana (UFMA)
Edna Dias Canedo (UnB)
Gleison Santos (UNIRIO)
Ismayle de Sousa Santos (UECE)
Ivan Machado (UFBA)
José Carlos Maldonado (ICMC-USP)
Monalessa Perini Barcellos (UFES)
Rodrigo Santos (UNIRIO)
Sheila Reinehr (PUCPR)
Tayana Conte (UFAM)
Program Committee
(to be defined)
