icse-related-work
Use when building the related-work and positioning sections of an ICSE research-track paper, covering the literature lanes SE reviewers check, searching ACM DL, IEEE Xplore and dblp across the flagship venues, staying current in fast-moving areas like LLM4SE, and keeping self-citations double-anonymous.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icse-related-work --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# ICSE Related Work Positioning at ICSE is scored twice: once under novelty ("sufficiently original with respect to the state-of-the-art", per the 2027 criteria read 2026-07-08) and once implicitly when the assigned reviewers — likely authors of the nearest prior work — check whether they and their neighbors are represented fairly. Cover the lanes below before writing a word of the section. ## The five lanes an SE reviewer sweeps | Lane | Where it lives | What missing it costs you | |---|---|---| | Flagship conference line | ICSE, FSE, ASE, ISSTA proceedings (ACM DL / IEEE Xplore) | The direct-competitor omission — often the reviewer's own paper | | Journal line | TSE, TOSEM, EMSE | Mature versions of "your" idea; journals often published it first | | Specialized venue line | MSR, ICSME, ICPC, SANER, RE, SPLC, ESEM per subfield | Reviewers from that subcommunity notice instantly | | Preprint line | arXiv cs.SE (critical in LLM4SE, AI-for-SE) | Staleness: in fast lanes, six months of preprints can contain your contribution | | Adjacent-field line | PL (PLDI/OOPSLA), systems, ML, HCI as relevant | Reinvention accusations from cross-listed reviewers | Search all three indexes — ACM Di
- The five lanes an SE reviewer sweeps
- Currency in fast lanes
- Writing the section as an argument
- Double-anonymous self-citation
- The nearest-neighbor rehearsal
- Verification discipline for the bibliography
- Output format
What does the icse-related-work skill do?
Use when building the related-work and positioning sections of an ICSE research-track paper, covering the literature lanes SE reviewers check, searching ACM DL, IEEE Xplore and dblp across the flagship venues, staying current in fast-moving areas like LLM4SE, and keeping self-citations double-anonymous.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icse-related-work --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.