Ms. Shirakawa and Ms. Yoshimoto from our laboratory presented the following two papers at The 20th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2026), held in Munich, Germany, in 2026.
ESEM is an international conference dedicated to empirical research in software engineering and is considered a top-tier conference; this year marks its 20th edition. For the technical paper track—which saw a 75% increase in submissions compared to the previous year—51 papers were accepted out of 269 submissions (an acceptance rate of 18.