PostersSPLASH/ISSTA 2026

“The SRC, Tools, and Posters tracks are jointly organized for ISSTA/SPLASH 2026. All three tracks share the same deadlines.”

The Posters Track at ISSTA/SPLASH 2026 provides a forum to present ongoing projects, emerging ideas, and research visions in an interactive setting. We invite submissions across all areas of software engineering, programming languages, systems, and applications. The poster session promotes interaction and feedback and is held early in the conference to encourage follow-up discussion.

Call for Submissions

Independent Posters

We invite submissions of posters that are within the scope of any of the SPLASH tracks and affiliated conferences / workshops and: showcase ongoing work that has not yet reached sufficient maturity for publication in a conference or journal highlight research challenges that existing work has failed to address outline planned research activities (e.g., M.Sc. or Ph.D. projects) and illustrate their relevance and potential impact, or describe new Free / Open Source Software tools or systems that are aimed at practitioners, or are aimed at researchers and contribute to research infrastructure, i.e., enable or simplify research activities The extended abstracts of accepted independent posters will be included in the SPLASH Companion proceedings and become available in the ACM Digital Library.

Posters for Works Accepted at OOPSLA, ISSTA, and Onward!

Authors of accepted OOPSLA and Onward! papers are encouraged to submit a poster summarizing their work. These posters will not be reviewed but must be submitted for format checking and inclusion in the Companion Proceedings. We do require posters for accepted papers and essays to be registered in a separate registration form (TBD) by deadline (TBD) so that we can order the necessary supplies.

Submission Guidelines

Posters will be evaluated both on their contributions and on how effectively they communicate those contributions. All poster proposals should include ONE of the following, in PDF format:

• A two-page extended abstract in the ACM acmart Master Article Template, sigplan subformat, with 10pt font, or, alternatively
• The poster itself. Posters should consist of one or more landscape slides. The poster board size is 1m × 1m. Note that posters will not be included in the SPLASH Companion Proceedings, only extended abstracts.

Poster authors are required to attend the scheduled interactive poster session, staying with their poster so that they can discuss their work with conference attendees. We will provide more details on the exact date and time of the poster sessions closer to the conference.

Student Submissions and Related Events

The SPLASH Posters track is a venue for researchers at any level of experience, but we explicitly welcome students to submit their in-progress work. If you are a student and considering submitting a poster, we recommend you to also explore the Doctoral Symposium and the ACM Student Research Competition. These related events are additional opportunities for feedback and suggestions on your dissertation work and may provide you with contacts for further interaction, as well as experience in communicating with other professionals.

Students are especially encouraged to submit. Depending on their project, they may also consider the Doctoral Symposium or ACM SRC (co-organized with this track).