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The second International Workshop on Human Factors for Software Dependability (HFSD), co-located with the 36th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2025), which will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, from October 21 to 24, 2025.
Software is created by humans and is often used by humans, with the ultimate goal of benefiting humanity. Programming is a cognitive-intensive activity, with human factors playing a significant role in causing faults in programs and inappropriate usages that may lead to accidents. Studying how human factors affect the reliability, safety, and security of software systems is crucial for proactively and continuously improving the trustworthiness of these systems.
The recent trend of developing software with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Tabnine, among others) accelerates the development process but also introduces human factor-related risks and challenges that affect software reliability and security. Among these, developers’ cognitive overload, difficulty in comprehending AI-generated code, and decision fatigue resulting from intensive interaction with AI coding assistants are emerging as new threats to software quality, opening up new avenues for research.
HFSD is a specialized workshop aims to bring researchers from multiple disciplines together to address the human factors that challenge the reliability, safety, and security of software systems. Interested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: