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fse-review-process

Use when reasoning about how an ESEC/FSE research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous "heavy" review, the at-least-three-reviewer PC model, the Accept / Major Revision / Reject decision categories, the journal-style revise-and-resubmit round of PACMSE, and how FSE's process differs from ICSE's cycles and ISSTA's rounds.

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# FSE Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. FSE's process is **journal-style**:
papers are PACMSE articles, and **Major Revision is a first-class decision**, not a soft rejection.
The most consequential mental shift for authors arriving from a plain accept/reject conference is
that a Major Revision is a genuine revise-and-resubmit round with the same reviewers, closer to a
journal R&R than to a rebuttal.

## Process model

- Submission and review run on **HotCRP** with **heavy double-anonymity**: identities are hidden
  through all reviewing *and* discussion, and any Major Revision response must itself be anonymous.
- Each paper is read by **at least three** program-committee members (FSE 2027 call), who weigh
  the significance of the SE contribution, soundness of the method, quality and honesty of the