{"id":2,"date":"2025-11-08T03:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soar.usask.ca\/soarsymposium2025\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:10:01","slug":"software-analytics-research-symposium-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soar.usask.ca\/soar2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Analytics Research Symposium 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/KJTHLPML14H2Tbas8\">(Venue: GSA Commons, 1337 College Dr, Saskatoon)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-756bc61a\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider glide\" data-per-view=\"1\" data-gap=\"0\" data-peek=\"0\" data-autoplay=\"true\" data-height=\"70%\" data-hide-arrows=\"false\"><div class=\"glide__track\" data-glide-el=\"track\"><div class=\"glide__slides\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item-wrapper glide__slide\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item\" src=\"https:\/\/soar.usask.ca\/soar2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/SOARLogo-1.png\" alt=\"SOAR Logo\" title=\"SOAR Logo\" data-id=\"9\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item-wrapper glide__slide\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item\" src=\"https:\/\/soar.usask.ca\/soar2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/thorvaldson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-id=\"280\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item-wrapper glide__slide\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item\" src=\"https:\/\/soar.usask.ca\/soar2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/compressimageto1mb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-id=\"121\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item-wrapper glide__slide\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item\" src=\"https:\/\/soar.usask.ca\/soar2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/usask_image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-id=\"379\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item-wrapper glide__slide\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item\" src=\"https:\/\/soar.usask.ca\/soar2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/nserc_logo.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-id=\"374\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item-wrapper glide__slide\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item\" src=\"https:\/\/soar.usask.ca\/soar2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/uni_combined-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-id=\"372\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"glide__bullets\" data-glide-el=\"controls[nav]\"><button class=\"glide__bullet\" data-glide-dir=\"=0\"><\/button><button class=\"glide__bullet\" data-glide-dir=\"=1\"><\/button><button class=\"glide__bullet\" data-glide-dir=\"=2\"><\/button><button class=\"glide__bullet\" data-glide-dir=\"=3\"><\/button><button class=\"glide__bullet\" data-glide-dir=\"=4\"><\/button><button class=\"glide__bullet\" data-glide-dir=\"=5\"><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-901ba2698bc0dd45a50c63c0ce6bc2e0\">The SOAR Symposium is an annual research event organized under the NSERC CREATE Program on Software Analytics Research (SOAR). The symposium provides a vibrant platform for graduate students, academic researchers, and industry partners to share their latest insights, tools, and experiences in software analytics and software engineering. The event aims to foster collaboration between academia and industry by showcasing ongoing research, encouraging data-driven decision-making in software development, and promoting interdisciplinary learning. Through Keynote talks, research lighting talks, poster presentations, participants engage in discussions on how analytics can improve software quality, developer productivity, and sustainability in modern software systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fa679469972d8ab72944af079d51c41e\">This year, the SOAR Symposium features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15dff333eb6cdfa7627a866858039b48\">Keynote Talks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a85afcd098301741d912007881a246eb\">Student research presentations and posters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5dbea8ccdd3534397efc8e6e587d9f31\">Short video presentations&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ee9df801e447665b05a604298b9fa36a\">Networking opportunities among students, professors, and industrial collaborators<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ddfc48ca053203300f768b5c03a99c07\">Refreshments and entertainment<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-802a21500e34bca80b984efbb91ed81f\">The symposium not only highlights innovative research in software analytics but also helps participants enhance their professional communication skills and prepare for collaborative, real-world problem-solving in software engineering contexts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8493192ecc3532a53c99472c649ea395\">Submission Guidelines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b36857d7c9f6a6f8c048badd42b58566\"><strong>1. Scope<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4f114b552a686ca9f50db191cbb874bd\">We welcome submissions that focus on empirical studies, tools, frameworks, or experience reports in&nbsp;<strong>software analytics<\/strong>&nbsp;and related fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-af4df50e47902dda9a265735af533b01\">Mining software repositories<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-50f48a9679a014800e7667ef61404818\">Developer behavior and productivity analytics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2688c66acbf6c376ee23cd6643bc07d2\">AI\/LLMs for software engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dc8f9e73c121d7498bc2d75b10f0614e\">Software quality, maintenance, and evolution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-218fd6425afbed1b47c3d4c228e33b06\">Human and organizational factors in software development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5a06b2cdc04eea211a7c7ecc1e045f35\">Software visualization and metrics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ac3965320fc872088a89d53a88435f8a\">Reproducibility and open science in software analytics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fbe5a8bc12b0bb9c10ec61270e4731bc\"><strong>2. Submission Format<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-991032a5126345f6c26e13a413c80365\"><strong>Length:<\/strong>&nbsp;Up to&nbsp;<strong>2 pages<\/strong>&nbsp;(including references).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>ACM Conference Template<\/strong>&nbsp;(two&nbsp;columns): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/proceedings-template\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/proceedings-template<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f2fd05fbf17e1749d36be4a663d0388c\"><strong>File Type:<\/strong>&nbsp;PDF only.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a69407d40e23653955f6ae06109cac3e\"><strong>Language:<\/strong>&nbsp;English.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a73e0471227a9a4e5587757484713d06\"><strong>Submission System:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/usask-soar2025.hotcrp.com\/\">https:\/\/usask-soar2025.hotcrp.com\/https:\/\/usask-soar2025.hotcrp.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-30c149a40f7f9828ff0d032323bea0a6\"><strong>3. Content Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e95b2907920649d8c59dfdb1e5642d27\">An extended abstract should be&nbsp;<strong>concise yet informative<\/strong>, clearly outlining the research motivation, methods, and early results or ideas. 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Video Presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-192824bcb3a2b81dac2ada90fb57641f\">Authors of submitted abstracts must submit a&nbsp;<strong>3-minute video presentation<\/strong>&nbsp;summarizing their work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9b318ccef955544fa5732b0f43c76c20\"><strong>Format:<\/strong>&nbsp;MP4, landscape orientation, maximum 150 MB.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-02829ab050bfa3ec6cc191ace7c58014\"><strong>Preparation Guideline:&nbsp;<\/strong>Slide presentation with your face showing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0272298522c40087299b18f21e1122e2\"><strong>Purpose:<\/strong>&nbsp;To communicate your work to a broader audience during the symposium and online showcase.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-18b428310883c189277319aa27952d15\"><strong>Content:<\/strong>&nbsp;Focus on motivation, main idea, and findings\u2014keep it engaging and visual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a1fa1a7f6770a1fe3011273f233113f5\"><strong>5. 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