Connecting and Serving the Software Engineering Community

Ç FOR more than four decades TSE has served as one of the most highly regarded archival venues in the field of software engineering. The standards that the community of editors and reviewers has established and that authors have met make TSE a journal where one can reliably find well-presented reports on novel, impactful and wellvalidated results. While archival journal publication has great value, ultimately the role of TSE is to serve and connect the growing international community of software engineering researchers and practitioners. I know that TSE has served my colleagues and me by exposing us to ideas from researchers around the world. TSE has also helped me to establish personal connections and collaborations—a paper is a great conversation starter. In 2015 we made two steps to enhance the service and connections that TSE provides. First, as a consequence of the refinements we have made to our manuscript review process we have been able to reduce the time from submission to electronic publication of manuscripts from over 13 months to under 11 months. For manuscripts that are not published we regularly provide feedback in a few weeks or months. Our goal is to continue to perform the highest-quality review possible, but to make sure that we expedite the review process so that results get out to the community as soon as possible. Second, we have recently created a Facebook community for TSE (https://www.facebook.com/ieeetse/) and are working to flow content from the journal to the page. I’d like to thank Jane Cleland-Huang and Sung Kim who have taken the lead in this effort. If you have ideas for content you would like to see on the page please contact any one of us.