Topics of interest for ESEC/FSE include, but are not limited to:
- Agile software development
- Case studies and experience reports
- Computer supported cooperative work
- Empirical software engineering
- End user software engineering
- Engineering for mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive systems
- Engineering of distributed/parallel software systems
- Engineering of embedded and real–time software
- Engineering secure software
- Human–computer interaction
- Internet and information systems development
- Patterns and frameworks
- Program comprehension and visualization
- Reverse engineering and maintenance
- Software architecture and design
- Software components and reuse
- Software configuration management and deployment
- Software dependability, safety and reliability
- Software economics and metrics
- Software policy and ethics
- Software processes and workflows
- Software requirements engineering
- Software testing and analysis
- Software tools and development environments
- Theory and formal methods