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icse-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs in the ICSE research track or should be routed to FSE, ASE, ISSTA, MSR, ICSME, EMSE/TSE/TOSEM, or an ICSE co-located track such as NIER, SEIP, SEIS, or Demonstrations, based on contribution type, evidence maturity, and audience.
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# ICSE Topic Selection
Decide venue before writing a single section. ICSE — the IEEE/ACM International
Conference on Software Engineering — is the flagship of the SE research community,
which means its reviewer pool expects a contribution *to software engineering
knowledge*, evaluated against the four posted criteria of the research track:
novelty, rigor, relevance, and verifiability/transparency (ICSE 2027 CFP wording,
checked 2026-07-08). A technically excellent paper whose lesson is about databases,
PL semantics, or pure ML will be respected and then rejected as out of scope.
## The two-question fit test
1. **Who changes their behavior if this paper is right?** If the answer names
software developers, testers, maintainers, reviewers, build engineers, or SE