Aims & Scope

Aims

Software (ISSN 2674-113X) is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers on all aspects of software engineering. The purpose of this journal is to bring together researchers, engineers, and software developers from academia and industry to present novel ideas and solid research about the theoretical and practical aspects in the application domains of software.

Software focuses on publishing regular research papers, reviews, communications, and especially studies and viewpoints that bear strong practical relevance, but other article types will also be considered. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. The full account of the research must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Electronic files or software which provide the full details of the calculations, proofs and experimental procedures can be deposited as supplementary material (if unable to be published in a normal way). Software seeks to have a practical orientation and wants to provide research to influence the practice of software engineering. We welcome researchers and practitioners worldwide to contribute to Software in any emerging or consolidated topics of software engineering.

Scope

The main subject areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Software requirements, design, architecture, development, testing, verification, validation, defect prediction, debugging, maintenance, and evolution;
• Software security, privacy, quality, and malware analysis;
• Software metrics, analytics, and data repository;
• Continuous software engineering, agile, model-driven, and service-oriented software development methods and tools;
• DevOps;
• Public sector software systems, software procurement, open-source software platforms;
• Requirements engineering;
• Programming languages, code assessment, and tools;
• Artificial Intelligence in software engineering;
• Fog/edge/cloud computing in software engineering;
• Software engineering for education, business, and society;
• Empirical software engineering;
• Software business, ecosystems, software startups, startup software engineering;
• Software product management, software engineering economics;
• Software platforms;
• Behavioral software engineering, human factors of software engineering;
• Ethical aspects of software engineering;
• Emerging trends and research areas.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Software will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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