Information and Software Technology is the international archival journal focusing on research and experience that contributes to the improvement of software developmentpractices. The journal's scope includes methods and techniques to better engineer software and manage its development. Articles submitted for review should have a clear component of software engineering or address ways to improve the engineering and management of software development. Areas covered by the journal include: 



• Software management, quality and metrics, 
• Software processes, 
• Software architecture, modelling, specification, design and programming
• Functional and non-functional software requirements 
• Software testing and verification & validation 
• Empirical studies of all aspects of engineering and managing software development 



Short Communications is a new section dedicated to short papers addressing new ideas, controversial opinions, "Negative" results and much more. Read the Guide for authors for more information. 

The journal encourages and welcomes submissions of systematic literature studies(reviews and maps) within the scope of the journal. Information and Software Technology is the premiere outlet for systematic literature studies in software engineering. Guidelines for conducting systematic reviews are provided here. 

Special Issues and Special Sections proposals
To submit a proposal for a special issue (original contributions on a topic within the scope of the journal) or a special section with extended papers from a conference of workshop within the scope of the journal, please contact the Special Content Editor, Prof. C. Wohlin ([email protected]). 

Research Papers
Short Communications
Review Articles

Editor-in-Chief
Günther Ruhe
University of Calgary Department of Computer Science, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, T2N 1N4, Alberta, Canada Email Günther Ruhe
Special Content Editor
Jeffrey Carver
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Associate Editors
Laurie Williams
North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science, Engineering Building II, Raleigh, North Carolina, NC 27695-8206, United States, Fax: 919-515-7896 Email Laurie Williams
Guilherme Horta Travassos
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Centre of Technology, Cidade Universitária, 21941-909, RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Email Guilherme Horta Travassos
Tracy Hall
Lancaster University School of Computing and Communications, B40, InfoLab21, Lancaster, United Kingdom Email Tracy Hall
Emeritus Editor
Claes Wohlin
Blekinge Institute of Technology Department of Software Engineering, 37179, Karlskrona, Sweden
Editorial Board
Bram Adams
Montreal Polytechnic, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Christian Bird
Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States
Sjaak Brinkkemper
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Yuanfang Cai
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Ivica Crnkovic
Chalmers University of Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Göteborg, Sweden
Maya Daneva
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Tore Dybå
SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway
Sebastian Elbaum
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Michael Felderer
University of Innsbruck, Department of Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria
Xavier Franch
Polytechnic University of Catalonia Department of Service and Information System Engineering, Barcelona, Spain
Sudipto Ghosh
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Paul Grünbacher
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria
Mark Harman
Facebook London, London, United Kingdom
Rachel Harrison
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Miryung Kim
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
Mario Linares Vásquez
University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia
David Lo
Singapore Management University School of Information Systems, Singapore, Singapore
Stephen MacDonell
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Emilia Mendes
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
Daniel Méndez Fernandez
Blekinge Institute of Technology Department of Software Engineering, Karlskrona, Sweden
Tim Menzies
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
James Miller
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ipek Ozkaya
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Dietmar Pfahl
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Brian Robinson
ABB Corporate Research United States Raleigh NC, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Klaus Schmid
University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
Carolyn Seaman
University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Martin Shepperd
Brunel University College of Engineering Design and Physical Sciences, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Fabio Queda Bueno da Silva
Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Miroslaw Staron
University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden
Burak Turhan
Monash University Faculty of Information Technology, Clayton, Australia
Qing Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Publicity co-Chairs
Maleknaz Nayebi
Montreal Polytechnic, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Email Maleknaz Nayebi
Davide Fucci
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Email Davide Fucci