IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Computer Society. It was established in 1975 and covers the area of software engineering. It is considered the leading journal in this field.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 6.5.
Past editors-in-chief
| Name | Affiliation | Term |
| Nenad Medvidović | University of Southern California | 2018–2022 |
| Matthew B. Dwyer | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | 2014–2017 |
| Bashar Nuseibeh | Open University | 2010–2013 |
| Jeffrey Kramer | Imperial College London | 2006–2009 |
| John C. Knight | University of Virginia | 2002–2005 |
| Anneliese A. Andrews | University of Denver | 2000–2001 |
| Richard Kemmerer | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1996–1999 |
| Nancy Leveson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1992–1995 |
| Victor Basili | University of Maryland, College Park | 1988–1991 |
| C. V. Ramamoorthy | University of California, Berkeley | 1984–1987 |
| Laszlo A. Belady | Thomas J. Watson Research Center | 1980–1983 |
| Raymond T. Yeh | University of Maryland, College Park | 1975–1979 |