IET Software publishes papers on all aspects of the software lifecycle, including design, development, implementation and maintenance. The focus of the journal is on the methods used to develop and maintain software, and their practical application.

Authors are especially encouraged to submit papers on the following topics, although papers on all aspects of software engineering are welcome:

Software and systems requirements engineering

Formal methods, design methods, practice and experience

Software architecture, aspect and object orientation, reuse and re-engineering

Testing, verification and validation techniques

Software dependability and measurement

Human systems engineering and human-computer interaction

Knowledge engineering; expert and knowledge-based systems, intelligent agents

Information systems engineering

Application of software engineering in industry and commerce

Software engineering technology transfer

Management of software development

Theoretical aspects of software development

Machine learning

Big data and big code

Cloud computing

Current Special Issue. Call for papers:

Knowledge Discovery for Software Development - https://digital-library.theiet.org/files/IET_SEN_CFP_KDSD.pdf

Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Software Development - https://digital-library.theiet.org/files/IET_SEN_CFP_BDASSD.pdf

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