IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Last updated ISSN 0098-5589

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is published by IEEE Computer Society in computer science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,645.

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What it publishes

Recent work in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:

Software Engineering Research
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
Software System Performance and Reliability
Distributed systems and fault tolerance
Formal Methods in Verification
Human auditory perception and evaluation
Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies

Key facts

Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISSN	0098-5589, 1939-3520, 2326-3881
Subject area	Computer Science
Access	Subscription
Article processing charge	$2,645
Indexed in	Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus
Articles published	6,220
Publishing since	1975
Journal website	www.computer.org/portal/web/tse/about

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