ECSA 2021 opened up a partnership with Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) and IEEE Software to incorporate journal-first papers into its program. Authors of journal first papers accepted by JSS or IEEE Software since January 2020 were invited to submit their work to be presented at ECSA 2021. This allowed authors of journal first papers to present their work to the community. In the end five papers were selected to be presented at the conference.
1. Preface