A Retrospective on ICSE 2022

The 44th International Conference on Software Engineering(ICSE 2022) was held in person from May 22 to May 27, 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Since ICSE was held as a solely virtual conference for the last two years, the opportunity to interact with other members of the software engineering community in person and to engage in insightful discussions in a physical room was greatly welcomed. Each day was organized into paper sessions, poster sessions, and Birds of a Feather(BoF) sessions, in addition to plenty of time for networking. Each paper session consisted of around 6-10 5 minute talks and time for questions for the authors. The Birds of a Feather sessions allowed for a broader discussion on a topic; the sessions varied in terms of topics and format. In this document, we summarize themes of research that we observed at the conference.