ISSTA 2027 - 36th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
by ACM SIGSOFT
The leading research symposium on software testing and analysis - now largely about testing AI agents
About This Event
ISSTA 2027 is the 36th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, held 7-10 September 2027 in Singapore and chaired by Jun Sun, Dan Hao and Jacques Klein. ISSTA describes itself as the leading research symposium on software testing and analysis, and its recent programmes have been dominated by AI: the 2026 edition covered diagnosing behavioural failures in AI agents, tool-invocation safety in agent frameworks, red-teaming coding agents, LLM-based test generation and vulnerability detection, DNN mutation testing, robustness verification of neural networks, and adversarial testing of deep reinforcement learning. The full research-paper timeline for 2027 is already published, running from a mandatory abstract on 8 January 2027 through camera-ready materials on 22 July 2027.
Key Dates & Deadlines
- Research papers: abstract submission (mandatory)
- Research papers: full paper submission
- Research papers: author response period begins
- Research papers: author response period ends
- Research papers: initial notification (including early reject)
- Research papers: major revision submission
- Research papers: final notification
- Research papers: camera-ready deadline
At a Glance
- Date
- September 7–10, 2027
- Location
- Singapore
- Format
- In-Person
- Event Type
- Conference
- Status
- Upcoming
- Pricing
- Paid
- Organizer
- ACM SIGSOFT
- Added
- Aug 11, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 11, 2026
Topics & Focus Areas
Who Should Attend
- ✓Heads of engineering quality
- ✓Platform security leaders
- ✓Test automation engineers
- ✓AI/ML platform engineers
- ✓Software researchers
- ✓Engineering managers
- ✓PhD students and postdocs
Why Attend
Every organisation shipping LLM features now owns a testing problem it has no established practice for: how to bound what an agent may invoke, how to red-team a coding assistant, how to tell whether a model regression is a real defect or noise. ISSTA is where those techniques are built and independently evaluated, typically well before they appear in commercial tooling. For a head of quality or platform security the value is a defensible evaluation methodology and a shortlist of research groups worth funding or hiring from, and the Singapore location makes it reachable for APAC engineering organisations that skip the US-hosted venues.
Event Features
- ✓Research Papers track with a mandatory abstract deadline (8 January 2027) ahead of full submission
- ✓Author response period, 22-25 March 2027
- ✓Major-revision route with resubmission on 20 May 2027
- ✓36th edition of the symposium, hosted by ACM SIGSOFT
- ✓Chaired by Jun Sun, Dan Hao and Jacques Klein
What Makes This Unique
- ★The leading dedicated venue for software testing and analysis, rather than a testing track inside a general software engineering conference
- ★Recent programmes are heavily AI-focused - agent failure diagnosis, tool-invocation safety and red-teaming of coding agents were all on the 2026 programme
- ★A complete eight-step research-paper timeline published more than a year ahead, including a mandatory abstract three days before full submission
- ★Held in Singapore, making it the most accessible top-tier software-quality conference for APAC engineering organisations
Industries Represented
Pricing Details
Registration is not open and no rates have been published for the Singapore edition. The dated, actionable facts available today are the research-paper submission milestones listed under deadlines.
Organizer
ACM SIGSOFT
sigsoft.org/Frequently Asked
- When is ISSTA 2027?
- ISSTA 2027 takes place September 7–10, 2027 in Singapore.
- Where is ISSTA 2027 held?
- ISSTA 2027 is held in Singapore. The event format is in-person.
- What is the ISSTA 2027 submission deadline?
- The next ISSTA 2027 deadline is research papers: abstract submission (mandatory) on Jan 8, 2027. Remaining dates: Research papers: full paper submission — Jan 11, 2027; Research papers: author response period begins — Mar 22, 2027; Research papers: author response period ends — Mar 25, 2027; Research papers: initial notification (including early reject) — Apr 20, 2027; Research papers: major revision submission — May 20, 2027; Research papers: final notification — Jun 17, 2027; Research papers: camera-ready deadline — Jul 22, 2027.
- How much does ISSTA 2027 cost?
- ISSTA 2027 is paid. Registration is not open and no rates have been published for the Singapore edition. The dated, actionable facts available today are the research-paper submission milestones listed under deadlines.
- Who should attend ISSTA 2027?
- ISSTA 2027 is aimed at Heads of engineering quality, Platform security leaders, Test automation engineers, AI/ML platform engineers, Software researchers, Engineering managers, PhD students and postdocs.
- What topics does ISSTA 2027 cover?
- ISSTA 2027 covers Software testing, Program analysis, Testing of AI systems, LLM agent safety, Automated test generation, Vulnerability detection, Deep learning robustness, Fuzzing and symbolic execution.
Sources
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