News & Events
News, events we have organised and talks hosted by the group.
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News
New national project on the empirical evaluation of LLMs in software engineering
The State Research Agency's proposed definitive resolution of the 2025 Knowledge Generation call includes project PID2025-173082NB-I00, Evaluación empírica de LLM en ingeniería del software: de experimentos con humanos a buenas prácticas metodológicas, led by Sira Vegas and Óscar Dieste (2026–2029, with a predoctoral contract).
Sira Vegas gives a keynote at MODELS 2026
Sira Vegas closed the keynote programme of MODELS 2026 in Málaga with the talk 'The Fragility of Software Engineering Experiments: What We Fail to See'.
Prospective cohort study of SonarQube Cloud at ASE 2026
Sabato Nocera, Sira Vegas and Giuseppe Scanniello present at ASE 2026 a prospective cohort study on the effects of customised configurations of static code analysis tools.
Francy D. Rodríguez becomes permanent faculty
Francy Diomar Rodríguez Tibocha holds a permanent lecturer position (Profesora Permanente Laboral) in DLSIIS from 1 September 2026, according to the UPM research portal.
Cohort study on code smells at ICSE 2026
The Research Track of ICSE 2026 in Rio de Janeiro includes 'Causal or Correlational? A Cohort Study on the Effects of Code Smells on Class Change- and Fault-Proneness' by Nocera, Vegas, Scanniello, Di Penta and Juristo.
Sira Vegas, Program Co-Chair of PROFES 2025
Sira Vegas co-chaired the programme of PROFES 2025, the International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, held in Salerno (Italy) on 1-3 December 2025.
Pilar Rodríguez appointed Deputy Head of Department
Pilar Rodríguez has been Deputy Head (Subdirectora) of the Department of Computer Languages and Systems and Software Engineering (DLSIIS) since 13 October 2025, according to the UPM research portal.
Óscar Dieste becomes Profesor Titular
Óscar Dieste holds a Profesor Titular de Universidad position in DLSIIS from 25 April 2025, according to the UPM research portal.
Sira Vegas becomes Full Professor
The Spanish Official Gazette (BOE) of 24 April 2025 publishes the appointment of Sira Vegas as Catedrática de Universidad (Full Professor) at UPM.
Xavier Ferré appointed UPM Director for Asia-Pacific
Xavier Ferré has been Deputy to the Vice-Rector and Director for Asia-Pacific at UPM since 10 January 2025, according to the UPM research portal.
Sira Vegas gives a keynote at ESEM 2024
At ESEM 2024 (ESEIW 2024, Barcelona), Sira Vegas gave the keynote 'The Method Behind the Magic: Ensuring Reliability in Software Engineering Empirical Results'.
Nyyti Saarimäki defends her PhD on cohort studies in MSR
Nyyti Saarimäki, co-supervised by Sira Vegas, defended her thesis 'Applying Retrospective Cohort Study Methodology in Mining Software Repositories Studies' at Tampere University.
Recognition
Awards
- 2018ESEM 2018 Best Full Paper Award: 'Comparing Techniques for Aggregating Interrelated Replications in Software Engineering' (Adrián Santos, Natalia Juristo) ↗
- 2016ESEM 2016 Best Full Paper Award: 'An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development Using a Multi-site Blind Analysis Approach' (Fucci, Scanniello, Romano, Shepperd, Sigweni, Uyaguari, Turhan, Juristo, Oivo) ↗
- 2013I3 programme certification (Spanish recognition of research excellence) ↗
- 2011Best Paper Award at the 15th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2011) ↗
- 2011Best Paper Award of the session 'Calidad, Pruebas y Requisitos' at the XVI Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2011) ↗
- 2009ESEM 2009 Best Paper Award: 'Using Differences among Replications of Software Engineering Experiments to Gain Knowledge' (Natalia Juristo, Sira Vegas) ↗
Community
Events organised and conference service
| Year | Event | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 | ICST 2027 - IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation | Future of Software Testing track co-chair (Sira Vegas) |
| 2027 | WSESE 2027 - International Workshop on Methodological Issues with Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (at ICSE 2027) | Organizing Committee member (Sira Vegas) |
| 2026 | ISERN Annual Meeting 2026 (ESEIW 2026) | Steering Committee chair; co-chair of the Steering Committee meeting, Business and Closing sessions and of the session 'Empirical Software Engineering in the Age of AI' (Sira Vegas) |
| 2026 | WSESE 2026 (at ICSE 2026) | Organizing Committee member (Sira Vegas) |
| 2025 | PROFES 2025 - International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement | Program Co-Chair (Sira Vegas) |
| 2025 | WSESE 2025 (at ICSE 2025) | Workshop co-organiser (Sira Vegas, with Andreas Jedlitschka) |
| 2024 | ISERN Annual Meeting 2024 (ESEIW 2024) | Session co-chairs: 'WSESE@ICSE 2024' (Natalia Juristo, Sira Vegas) and 'Empirical Studies in AI-driven Software Engineering (AI4SE)' (Sira Vegas) |
| 2024 | WSESE 2024 (at ICSE 2024) | Keynote speaker (Natalia Juristo); session chair (Sira Vegas) |
| 2024 | EASE 2024 - Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering | Workshops Co-Chair (Sira Vegas) |
| 2024 | REFSQ 2024 - Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality | Posters and Tools Co-Chair (Óscar Dieste) |
| 2024 | SANER 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering | Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) track co-chair (Sira Vegas) |
| 2024 | ICPC 2024 - International Conference on Program Comprehension | RENE track co-chair (Sira Vegas) |
| 2023 | ISERN - International Software Engineering Research Network | Chair of the ISERN Steering Committee (since 2023) (Sira Vegas) |
| 2023 | EASE 2023 - 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering | General Co-Chair (Sira Vegas, with Burak Turhan); Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair (Óscar Dieste) |
| 2023 | PROFES 2023 | Journal-First track chair (Sira Vegas) |
| 2022 | ICSE 2022 - 44th International Conference on Software Engineering | Virtualization Co-Chair (Óscar Dieste) |
| 2021 | ESEM 2021 - ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | Emerging Results and Vision Papers Co-Chair (Pilar Rodríguez) |
| 2021 | ICSE 2021 - 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering | Organised by GRISE: General Chair (Natalia Juristo), Conference Chair (Óscar Dieste), Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair (Sira Vegas), Sponsorship Chair (Pilar Rodríguez), Web Team (Francy D. Rodríguez, then at Universidad Católica de Ávila, and alumnus John W. Castro); alumna Ana M. Moreno was JSEET Co-Chair |
| 2020 | ICSE 2020 | Virtualization: Regional Live! team leader, Europe (Atlantic) (Óscar Dieste) |
| 2019 | ICSE 2019 | New Faculty Symposium co-chair (Natalia Juristo, with Matthew Dwyer) |
| 2018 | CIbSE 2018 - XXI Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering | Doctoral Symposium chair (Óscar Dieste) |
| 2017 | ICSE 2017 | Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track co-chair (Natalia Juristo, with David Shepherd) |
| 2017 | REFSQ 2017 | Research Method Track chair (Óscar Dieste) |
| 2016 | REFSQ 2016 | Research Method Track chair (Óscar Dieste) |
| 2015 | ESEM 2015 - 9th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | Program Co-Chair (with Jeff Carver) (Óscar Dieste) |
| 2013 | EASE 2013 - Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering | Program Chair (Natalia Juristo) |
| 2012 | PROFES 2012 - 13th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement | Organised in Madrid by GRISE: General Chair (Natalia Juristo), Program Co-Chair (Óscar Dieste, with Andreas Jedlitschka), Organizing Co-Chair (Sira Vegas, with Silvia T. Acuña); proceedings in Springer LNCS 7343 |
| 2010 | WER 2010 - 13th Workshop em Engenharia de Requisitos | Oscar Dieste: Program Co-Chair (with Graciela Hadad) and tutorial 'Cómo crear piezas de conocimiento en ingeniería de requisitos: replicación y agregación experimentales'; website hosted at grise.upm.es |
| 2008 | IASESE 2008 - International Advanced School on Empirical Software Engineering (ESEIW 2008) | Chair (Natalia Juristo); lecturers (Sira Vegas, Óscar Dieste) |
| 2007 | ESEM 2007 - 1st ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEIW 2007) | Organised in Madrid by GRISE: General Chair (Natalia Juristo), Program Co-Chair (Sira Vegas, with Carolyn Seaman), Treasurer and Local Arrangements Chair (Óscar Dieste). ESEM was part of the Empirical Software Engineering International Week (ISERN, IDoESE, IASESE, ESEM), 16-22 Sep 2007, Madrid |
| 2005 | Workshop 'Tendiendo Puentes entre IPO e IS' | Workshop held at the Facultad de Informática (UPM); listed among the events organised by the group on its former website |
| 2004 | ISESE 2004 - International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering | Program Chair (Natalia Juristo) |
| 2004 | JIISIC 2004 - 4as Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Ingeniería del Software e Ingeniería del Conocimiento | Ana M. Moreno: Conference Chair; Oscar Dieste (then Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Program Chair; Xavier Ferré and Dante Carrizo: Program Committee |
| 2003 | ESERNET 2003 Summer Meeting (Experimental Software Engineering Network) | Meeting held in Madrid; listed among the events organised by the group on its former website |
| 2003 | CSEE&T 2003 - 16th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training | Ana M. Moreno: Conference Co-Chair (with Pete Knoke); Natalia Juristo: keynote speaker and Program Committee member |
| 2002 | JISBD 2002 - VII Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (El Escorial) | Organizing Committee Chair (Natalia Juristo); Organizing Committee members (Óscar Dieste, Sira Vegas). Held in El Escorial, 19–21 November 2002, within the Encuentros en Tecnologías Software organised by UPM |
| 2002 | SNPD 2002 - 3rd ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing | Natalia Juristo: Conference Co-Chair (with Barry Boehm); tutorials by Oscar Dieste ('Multi-paradigm Conceptual Modeling') and Xavier Ferré ('Improving the usability of your software products') |
| 2001 | SEKE 2001 - 13th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering | Natalia Juristo: Conference Co-Chair (with Stephen J. Mellor); Oscar Dieste: Local Arrangements Committee |
| 2001 | NLDB 2001 - 6th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language for Information Systems | Ana M. Moreno: Program Chair; Oscar Dieste and Xavier Ferré: Local Arrangements Committee (with Ricardo Imbert) |
| 2000 | Jornadas sobre Tendencias en Ingeniería del Software (Madrid, June 2000) | Organised by the Facultad de Informática (UPM, Software Engineering teaching unit) with the IEEE Computer Society; contact: Natalia Juristo. Speakers: Alan Davis, Nancy Mead, Steve McConnell and Jeffrey Voas |
| 1997 | SEKE 1997 - 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering | Natalia Juristo: Program Chair (conference chairs Steve Cross, SEI, and J. Luis Maté, UPM) |
Archive
Seminars by visiting researchers
Requirements Engineering: Both Sides of the Issues
Alan Davis · University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Usability maturity models and developing usability culture in partnership with the companies
Jarmo Palviainen · Tampere University of Technology
Understanding User Requirements: a Semiotic-based View
M. Cecilia C. Baranauskas · Institute of Computing, Unicamp, Brazil
Requirements Elicitation: How Do the Experts Do It?
Alan Davis · University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Usability Integration into the Software Process
Nigel Bevan · Serco Usability Services; City University, London
The Future of Software Engineering
Barry Boehm
Linguistic Instruments in Information Systems Design
Reind van de Riet
Architectural Design: Designing Before Design
Dr. J. Fernando Naveda · Department of Software Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
The Magic Triangle of Ontologies
Dr. Dieter Fensel
Reducing Uncertainty about Software Safety
Dr. Jeffrey Voas · Reliable Software Technologies
Using Experiments to Build a Body of Knowledge
Dr. Victor R. Basili · University of Maryland; Fraunhofer Center Maryland
Atributos de Calidad del Software
Dr. Mario Barbacci
Guests
Visiting researchers
- Erika Nina HöhnInstituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo (São Carlos), Brazil
- Stefano PrevostoPolitecnico di Torino, ItalyNovember 2006 - May 2007
- Cecilia BaranauskasUnicamp, BrazilSeptember 2006 - January 2007
- Alan DavisUniversity of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USAMay 2006 - August 2006; May 2009 - August 2009
- Jarmo PalviainenTampere University of Technology, FinlandJanuary 2006 - June 2006
- Teresa BaldassarreUniversità di Bari, ItalyNovember 2003 - December 2003
- Supanat KitcharoensakkulAsian Institute of Technology, ThailandJanuary 2000 - June 2000