DEBT 2026: Call for Papers
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DEBT 2026, Workshop co-located with ECOOP 2026, Brussels, Belgium
Fourth Workshop on Future Debugging Techniques
(https://2026.ecoop.org/home/debt-2026#Call-for-Papers)
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Important Dates
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* Abstract submission deadline: Sat 28 Feb 2026
* Paper submission deadline: Sat 7 Mar 2026
* Author notification: Wed 15 Apr 2026
* Workshop: Monday 29 June 2026
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DEBT’26 is looking to advance state-of-the-art to debug modern software.
We welcome researchers from all related areas aimed at helping with the
hard task of diagnosing the root cause of bugs, including dynamic and
static debugging techniques, online and postmortem debuggers, delta
debugging, automatic bug finding, novel visualization techniques for
debugging programs, etc.
The workshop aims to gather the community and foster discussion from
different perspectives. That is why we seek submissions in the form of
papers as well as talks and tool demonstrations.
The workshop is a venue for all approaches to debugging. A non-exclusive
list of topics of interest is:
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Debugging techniques, from static to dynamic techniques.
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Innovative visualisation techniques.
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Techniques targeted specific programming models and execution models
(e.g., concurrent and parallel programming, microservices,
distributed ledgers, web, etc. ) or hardware (e.g., debugging
micro-controllers, mobile devices, Big Data applications, etc.).
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Case studies and evaluation of such techniques, e.g., user studies
on visualisation tools, debuggers, etc.
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Surveys, taxonomies of bugs and bug patterns, and current
practices/uses of debugging approaches.
Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for ACM
sigplanpapers (\documentclass[sigplan,screen]{acmart}),
seehttps://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/
<https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/>for details.
Submissions should be made via Easychair using the following
link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=debt2026
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=debt2026>
The accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library, though
authors will be able to opt out of this publication, if desired. At
least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop and
attend the event to present the work, and participate in the discussions.
AUTHORS TAKE NOTE:
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made
available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks
prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date
affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Workshop Organizers
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* Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
* Steven Costiou, Centre Inria de l’Université de Lille, France
For more information see: https://2026.ecoop.org/home/debt-2026
