FSE 2027 - ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering

FSE 2027, the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, runs 12-16 July 2027 in Shenzhen, China. Alongside ICSE it is one of the two flagship conferences of ACM SIGSOFT, and one of the venues where AI-for-software-engineering work is peer-reviewed rather than benchmarked in a blog post - the 2026 programme covered LLM-based code generation for low-resource and domain-specific languages, autonomous LLM agents for issue-to-commit link recovery, agent security and execution-boundary management, LLM-driven test generation, neural-symbolic static analysis and fairness testing of language models. FSE 2027 runs three tracks - Research Papers, Industry Papers and Software Engineering Education - and its full submission timeline is already published, opening with the research paper deadline of 2 October 2026 and closing with industry camera-ready on 3 April 2027.

• Research papers: full paper submissionOct 2, 2026
• Research papers: author response period beginsDec 14, 2026
• Research papers: author response period endsDec 18, 2026
• Research papers: initial notificationJan 22, 2027
• Industry papers: submission deadlineJan 23, 2027
• Research papers: major revision submissionMar 5, 2027
• Industry papers: author notificationMar 20, 2027
• Research papers: final notificationMar 31, 2027
• Industry papers: camera-ready deadlineApr 3, 2027

Date

July 12–16, 2027

Location

Shenzhen, China

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

ACM SIGSOFT

Added

Aug 11, 2026

Updated

Aug 11, 2026

• ✓VPs of Engineering
• ✓Developer productivity leads
• ✓Platform engineering leaders
• ✓Software researchers
• ✓Static analysis and testing engineers
• ✓Engineering managers
• ✓PhD students and postdocs

If your engineering organisation has deployed coding agents and cannot yet tell whether the generated code is safe, correct or maintainable, FSE is where those measurement techniques come from a year or two before they appear on a vendor's product sheet. The Industry Papers track exists specifically for practitioner reports, so a platform or developer-productivity lead can both present internal results and read what other large engineering organisations actually measured. For a CTO the concrete takeaway is evaluation methodology - how to test LLM-generated code, bound agent permissions and quantify repair quality - plus a direct hiring channel into the research groups doing it.

• ✓Research Papers track - full paper submission 2 October 2026
• ✓Industry Papers track - submission 23 January 2027, camera-ready 3 April 2027
• ✓Software Engineering Education track
• ✓Author response (rebuttal) period, 14-18 December 2026
• ✓Major-revision route for research papers, with resubmission on 5 March 2027

• ★One of the two flagship ACM SIGSOFT conferences, alongside ICSE
• ★Complete submission timeline published nearly a year ahead - eight dated milestones running from October 2026 through April 2027
• ★A separate Industry Papers track with its own deadline, so practitioner experience reports are not judged against academic submissions
• ★Offers a major-revision route rather than a straight accept/reject, which is unusual for a top-tier software engineering venue

Registration is not open and no rates have been published for the Shenzhen edition; ACM SIGSOFT conferences post member, non-member and student tiers closer to the event. The dated, actionable facts available today are the submission milestones listed under deadlines.

When is FSE 2027?

FSE 2027 takes place July 12–16, 2027 in Shenzhen, China.

Where is FSE 2027 held?

FSE 2027 is held in Shenzhen, China. The event format is in-person.

What is the FSE 2027 submission deadline?

The next FSE 2027 deadline is research papers: full paper submission on Oct 2, 2026. Remaining dates: Research papers: author response period begins — Dec 14, 2026; Research papers: author response period ends — Dec 18, 2026; Research papers: initial notification — Jan 22, 2027; Industry papers: submission deadline — Jan 23, 2027; Research papers: major revision submission — Mar 5, 2027; Industry papers: author notification — Mar 20, 2027; Research papers: final notification — Mar 31, 2027; Industry papers: camera-ready deadline — Apr 3, 2027.

How much does FSE 2027 cost?

FSE 2027 is paid. Registration is not open and no rates have been published for the Shenzhen edition; ACM SIGSOFT conferences post member, non-member and student tiers closer to the event. The dated, actionable facts available today are the submission milestones listed under deadlines.

Who should attend FSE 2027?

FSE 2027 is aimed at VPs of Engineering, Developer productivity leads, Platform engineering leaders, Software researchers, Static analysis and testing engineers, Engineering managers, PhD students and postdocs.

What topics does FSE 2027 cover?

FSE 2027 covers AI for software engineering, Large language models for code, AI agent security, Software testing, Program analysis, Automated program repair, Empirical software engineering, Software engineering education.

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