Editor's Message to Special Issue of Software Engineering
Shinpei Hayashi · Journal of Information Processing · 2021
We are pleased to present the special issue of software engineering.The software engineering research field widely covers from theory to application to develop methods and extract knowledge that contribute to improving the quality of software and software production.IPSJ SIG Software Engineering hosts symposiums, workshops, and meetings for software engineering researchers and practitioners so that they can exchange their experience and knowledge across boundaries between academia and industry.This special issue is also one of such continuing activities.This special issue aims to collect the most recent research contributions on a wide range of topics in software engineering.In addition to regular submissions, we solicited submissions of extended research papers whose original versions have been submitted to the IPSJ SIGSE Software Engineering Symposium 2020 (SES 2020).This collaboration with the symposium was started in 2011.It provides opportunities for researchers to further improve their papers with reviewers' comments.We received 13 submissions.Among them, we carefully selected eight papers, which consist of seven Japanese papers (including one Technical Note article) and one English paper, through rigorous reviews and editorial committee meetings (acceptance rate: 61.5%).The editorial committee followed the guidelines of the IPSJ Journal.If a paper has the potential to be accepted, the committee selected the conditional acceptance and tried to provide clear conditions for the acceptance.The committee also worked hard to provide the feedback comments as much as possible to the rejected papers for their future resubmission.The accepted papers cover various topics, including methodologies for requirement analysis, design, testing, maintenance, operation, and empirical studies on the practices of software developers.Finally, we would like to sincerely express our sincere gratitude to all the authors who submitted papers,