February 2026 SWE-SE-SCI update! New scholar added: Mazen Mohamad, RISE. Franke moved to the Swedish Defence University. New signature work by Caporuscio: A self-sustainable service assembly for decentralized computing environments (JSS) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Leaving Örebro and the WASP Winter Conference 2026. Nice event! Good to meet old friends and software+CodeScene got some visibility in this AI-heavy community. The mix is obviously needed to make things happen.

First 2026 SWE-SE-SCI update! New signature works by Ovais Ahmad: Technical debt is not just technical: An industrial case study in large agile sw. development (JSS) and Heyn: Causal models for specifying reqts. in industrial ML-based sw - A case study (JSS) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

At Øredev this week, a big dev conference at home. Space is very present this year. Speaking tomorrow - should find a way to integrate something astronomical. oredev.org #oredev

November SWE-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Bucaioni: A checklist of quality concerns for architecting ML-intensive systems (JSS) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

We have extended the deadline until November 9th, Anywhere on Earth. This just might be your chance to join us at **AST 2026** in Rio de Janeiro! Consider submitting! See: conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026

Happening right now: Matthias Wagner presents his licentiate thesis on SE and the EU AI Act! Proud supervisor. 👍

The deadline is just around the corner: you have 4 more days! Submit to Automation of Software Test (AST 2026) and have a chance to meet up with the community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in April 2026 (co-located with #ICSE2026) #AST2026 #CallForPapers #softwaretesting cc @mrksbrg.bsky.social

CFP: AST 2026 - Automation of Software Test (co-located with ICSE). Deadline: 26 Oct 2025 (AoE). Seeking strong work in testing/automation. Details: conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026

October SWE-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Alhanahnah: An empirical evaluation of pre-trained large language models for repairing declarative formal specifications (EMSE) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Finally in York! I’ve wanted to visit for a long time. So many things here connect to the Swedish WASP program. Great training and symposium! @cfaa.bsky.social

AST (Automation of Software Test) is back and will again by co-located with ICSE’26 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). We are looking forward to your submissions on anything related to software testing! conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026 #softwaretesting #softwareQA #ICSE #ICSE2026

September SWE-SE-SCI update. New scholar added: Tomas Gustavsson, Karlstad University. mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

August SWE-SE-SCI update. Two new signature publications, both from Karlstad. 1) Ovais Ahmed: It all starts with structure: investigating learning dynamics in large-scale agile (JSS) 2) Ahmed: Smart manufacturing: MLOps-enabled event-driven arch for steel production (JSS) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

July Swe-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Jongeling: How are informal diagrams used in SE? An exploratory study of open-source and industrial practices. (Softw. Syst. Model.) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

June Swe-SE-SCI update. New scholar added: Leonardo Horn Iwaya, Karlstad University. mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Checking if the meetups are greener on the other side of the bridge today! In Copenhagen to listen to Microsoft. And others!

Guess I'm not the only one doing #icse25 laundry today?

May Swe-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Linåker: Public sector open source software projects - How is development organized? (EMSE) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

My @icseconf.bsky.social 2025 trip starts now! It's a long one, and despite heading west, I'm relieved I don’t have to set foot in the US this time. Looking forward to meeting the community! #icse25

#TechDebt is just around the corner and you do no want to miss the presentation of the 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼 on Monday 28 at 14:10! 💪 Zadia Codabux and Neil Ernst will share insights from the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on “Reframing Technical Debt”! 🌎 Check out the full program👇 lnkd.in/dauWNgm5

April 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. Two new signature works. Bucaioni: Model-driven engineering for software architecture (JSS). Jolak: An empirical investigation of the impact of architectural smells on software maintainability (JSS). mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Mostly in town for the #Kent reunion, but took the chance to give a talk at KTH. Technical debt and LLM-driven refactoring. Now musik non stop till slut!

Come and discuss #technical #debt in Ottawa in April! @techdebtconf.bsky.social offers presentations from industry (Google, CodeScene, ...) and academia, and is a great opportunity to meet engineers and researchers. Reg: conf.researchr.org/attending/Te... (Two-day co-located or Single-day fee).

March 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. New scholars added (both Chalmers): 1) Inayat and 2) Alhanahnah. New signature works: 1) Gallina (MdU) - Towards an ontology for proc. compl. w. legislations. (JSEP) 2) Ovais (KU) - Strengthening Large-Scale Agile Teams (JSEP) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

February 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Badampudi: Large scale reuse of microservices using CI/CD and InnerSource practices - a case study (EMSE). Research done at Ericsson. mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Returned from the WASP Winter Conf and 10 year jubilee. 600 participants! New PhD student Nadim introduced and Matthias shared AI Act study. Now 2025 can start!

Dev? Want to do something meaningful before 2025 really kicks off? Join our AI + code maintainability experiment with Equal Experts, CodeScene, Lund Uni & Dave Farley! Prizes: signed books & AMA session! Info: youtu.be/_zUkNrUp0Ok Signup: form.typeform.com/to/PnVpuZGr

First 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Holmström Olsson: Strategic Digital Product Management: Nine Approaches (IST) (And an infrastructure update due to a breaking NLTK change) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

The first IEEE Software issue of 2025 is out! In the Reqts column, we explore the evolution of sentiment analysis from a #reqeng perspective. Thanks to LLMs, the tech is now accessible to all! We also highlight MIP work by Walid Maalej and colleagues. Preprint: mrksbrg.com/ieee_25jan/

Bot explosion tonight?

A strand of our research just took a gamifiation turn - two papers accepted at the #Gamify2025 workshop. Static code analysis and gamification mix nicely. Potentially an optional CodeScene feature.

Last SWE-SE-SCI update this year (December). No new scholars or signature works. mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Is this thing really happening now? There surely is a void to fill. Little blue bird has been such a dodo.