The authors of papers accepted to the workshop from any of its tracks (including the tool competition) as well as the whole software engineering community are invited to develop and submit a software tool to the NLBSE'22 special issue in the Software Track of the Journal of Science of Computer Programming.
We expect novel software tools related to NLP-based software engineering. For the demonstration and tool competition tracks, we expect submissions significantly updated and extended: at least 30% new content compared to the original workshop version.
Submissions must conform to the specifications of the Journal's Software Track listed on this website (3-6 pages, software artifacts, software versions/metadata, etc). The reviewing process will use the evaluation criteria specified in the same website (originality/novelty, impact on software engineering, availability and ease of installation/use, quality of documentation, and reproducibility of empirical results).
The software tools, including any evaluation code, should be released as open source software under the licenses approved by Elsevier.