CFP summary
ICPC 2026 is the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension and is the premier venue for research on understanding software systems. The conference addresses both the human activities involved in comprehending software and the methods and technologies that support such comprehension. Co-located with ICSE 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, ICPC provides a forum for original research, early ideas, replications, negative results, tools, and journal-first presentations in program comprehension.
Topics
Program comprehension; empirical evaluation of comprehension tools and techniques; human aspects of comprehension; collaborative and distributed comprehension; comprehension in the era of LLMs and AI-assisted programming; programming education and comprehension; cognitive theories and empirical studies; tool support for understanding software artifacts and evolution.