Scope 

The 14^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Trends (SE 2026) brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to explore the latest advances shaping the future of software engineering. As software systems grow in scale, complexity, and societal impact, SE 2026 provides a global forum for presenting innovative methodologies, rigorous empirical studies, intelligent automation techniques, and emerging practices that are redefining how software is designed, built, tested, deployed, and maintained.

SE 2026 welcomes high quality contributions that advance the theory and practice of software engineering. Authors are invited to submit original research papers, visionary ideas, comprehensive surveys, and real world industrial experiences that highlight significant progress across the broad spectrum of modern software engineering and its evolving trends.

• Software Processes, Methodologies and Development Models
• Requirements Engineering and Software Specification
• Software Architecture, Design Patterns andModeling
• Programming Languages, Type Systems and Formal Methods
• Software Verification, Validation and Correctness
• Model Driven Engineering and Model Transformation
• Software Testing, Debugging and Program Analysis
• Automated Testing, Fuzzing and Test Generation
• Software Maintenance, Evolution and Refactoring
• Technical Debt, Code Quality and Software Reliability
• Mining Software Repositories and Empirical Software Engineering
• Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and DevOps
• Machine Learning for Software Engineering (ML4SE)
• AI Assisted Programming, Code Generation and Automated Repair
• Large Language Models for Software Engineering
• Intelligent Software Analytics and Predictive Models
• Knowledge Based Systems and Automated Reasoning
• Search Based Software Engineering
• Software Project Management, Risk Analysis and Team Dynamics
• Agile, Lean and Hybrid Development Practices
• Software Quality Assurance, Metrics and Governance
• Human Factors, Collaboration and Developer Productivity
• Economicsand Decision Making in Software Engineering
• Web Engineering and Web Scale Software Systems
• Cloud Native Development, MicroservicesandServerless Computing
• Distributed, Edge andIoT Software Systems
• High Performance and Scalable Software Architectures
• Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
• Software Supply Chain Security
• Privacy Preserving Software Engineering
• Dependable, Safety Critical and Real Time Systems
• Formal Verification for Security
• Human Centered Software Engineering and HCI
• Software Engineering for Education and Learning Technologies
• Software Engineering for AI Enabled and Autonomous Systems
• Ethics, Sustainability and Social Impact in Software Engineering
• Emerging Trends and Future Directions in Software Engineering

Selected papers from SE 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals

• The International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)
• International Journal of Computer Science, Engineering and Applications (IJCSEA)