ICPC 2026 solicits four main categories of research contributions: research papers, early research achievement (ERA) papers, replications and negative results papers, and tool demos. On top of this, journal first papers from selected journals will be accepted for presentation. Research papers describe original work in the area of program comprehension; ERA papers report early research results with the main goal of fostering discussion at the conference. Replications and negative results papers concerned with the re-execution of existing research aimed at strengthening previous findings as well as the presentation of sound empirical methods leading to negative results. Finally, tool demonstrations report about new instruments making available and usable to practitioners’ program comprehension methods.

IEEE/ACM 34th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) is technically sponsored by IEEE. The proceedings  will be submitted for inclusion in Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, Ei Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, and many others databases.