IET Software publishes papers on all aspects of the software lifecycle, including design, development, implementation and maintenance. The focus of the journal is on the methods used to develop and maintain software, and their practical application.

Authors are especially encouraged to submit papers on the following topics, although papers on all aspects of software engineering are welcome:

Software and systems requirements engineering
Formal methods, design methods, practice and experience
Software architecture, aspect and object orientation, reuse and re-engineering
Testing, verification and validation techniques
Software dependability and measurement
Human systems engineering and human-computer interaction
Knowledge engineering; expert and knowledge-based systems, intelligent agents
Information systems engineering
Application of software engineering in industry and commerce
Software engineering technology transfer
Management of software development
Theoretical aspects of software development
Machine learning
Big data and big code
Cloud computing

Current Special Issue. Call for papers:
Knowledge Discovery for Software Development - https://digital-library.theiet.org/files/IET_SEN_CFP_KDSD.pdf
Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Software Development - https://digital-library.theiet.org/files/IET_SEN_CFP_BDASSD.pdf