Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from areas such as information visualization, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and data science, and applying these in the software engineering domain.

The VISSOFT conference is principally a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. Consequently, VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and data science to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization.

VISSOFT, co-located with ICSME, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization.

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Topics of interest include but are not limited to the visualization of:
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- Software Engineering data, which may include (but is not limited to) source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks (like StackOverflow and GitHub), mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data

- Software development activities, which may include design, requirements engineering, software maintenance, program comprehension, software performance, software testing, and debugging

- Software analytical approaches based on data science concepts

- Empirical evaluations of software visualizations, including eye-tracking studies

- Tools, techniques, and frameworks that include visual programming languages

- Interactive and immersive techniques and algorithms related to software development

- Integrating tools with development environments

- Industrial experience with using software visualization

- Techniques used in Software Engineering Education

- Application of trendy techniques such as Machine Learning and AI-assisted models (Large Language Models, Large Multi-Modal Models with Software)

- Application of techniques such as Augmented and Virtual Reality, and Sonification, to software engineering activities

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Submission Types
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- Research Track
- NIER Track
- Tools Track
- Artifact Evaluation Track
- Journal-First Track
- Poster Track
- Visualization Challenge Track (NEW!)

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Showcase Session
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As successfully done in the past, at VISSOFT 2025 authors of all accepted papers in all tracks, and specially in the Tools Track and in the Visualization Challenge Track, will be invited to demonstrate their approaches and tools to the participants in an informal setting. More details will follow a few weeks before the conference.

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How to submit
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Papers must strictly adhere to the two-column IEEE conference proceedings format and the page. Please use the available IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the associated journal paper must register and present the paper at the conference.

Supplemental material (e.g., video, data, software) that might be helpful for reviewers can be linked in your paper. Following open science practices, authors are also encouraged to archive their artifacts in a reproduction package in an open access archive. Authors who provide a video and/or a reproduction package should add the corresponding links in a specific section at the end of the paper (“Supplementary materials” section).

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=vissoft2025

Note: VISSOFT uses a single-blind review process (i.e., the names and affiliations of the authors are revealed to reviewers but reviewers' identities are not revealed to authors).

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Important dates
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All dates refer to midnight 23:59:59 AoE.

Research, NIER, and Tools Track
Paper Abstract: May 16, 2025
Paper Submission: May 23, 2025
Paper Notification: July 4, 2025

Journal-First, and Poster Track
Paper Submission: July 11, 2025
Paper Notification: July 16, 2025

Visualization Challenge Track
Abstract Submission: June 13, 2025
Notification: June 17, 2025
Short Paper Submission: July 11, 2025
Feedback from PC Chairs:July 16, 2025

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Conference Dates: September 7-8, 2025
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