Topics of interest for ICSE 2012 include, but are not restricted to:

Agile software development	Program comprehension and visualization
Autonomic and self-managed software	Requirements engineering
Computer-supported collaborative work	Reengineering and reverse engineering
Component-based software engineering	Quality and performance
Configuration management and deployment	Service-oriented architectures and applications
Dependendability, safety and reliability	Software architecture and design
Distributed, web-based and internet-scale SE	Software economics and metrics
Empirical software engineering	Software evolution
End-user software engineering	Software maintenance
Engineering secure software	Software policy and ethics
Feature interaction and generative programming	Software reuse
Human and social aspects	Software specifications
Knowledge-based software engineering	Testing and analysis
Mobile, embedded and real-time systems	Theory and formal methods
Model-driven software engineering	Tools and environments
Patterns and frameworks	Validation and verification
Processes and workflow