ASE Topic Selection & Routing
Guides software engineering researchers in evaluating project fit and routing papers to the IEEE/ACM ASE conference or suitable alternative venues.
The ASE Topic Selection skill helps academic researchers and software engineers determine whether their research project aligns with the core automation focus of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). It provides structured diagnostic tests, such as the model-swap and re-label tests, alongside sibling-venue routing tables comparing ASE with ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ISSTA, PL venues, and SE journals. By evaluating whether a project delivers a runnable automated mechanism rather than a pure empirical observation or baseline ML advance, this skill ensures manuscripts are targeted to the correct track (Research, NIER, Tools and Datasets) and reviewed by the appropriate community.