In this paper, an approach based on Petri nets for the design process of video games is presented. A WorkFlow net is used to represent the activities the player will perform in a video game. The main areas of the virtual world that the player will ...

Background: In the era of digitalization, context awareness has become more important to allow software systems adaptation. Therefore, the quality assurance of such systems must consider the variation of context. However, there is a lack of software ...

The technological empowerment of cities as a way of facing challenges to their sustainability and quality of life of population has gave rise to the realization of the smart city concept. Smart cities typically encompass several distributed systems ...

Software testing is an essential activity for software product quality assurance. For historical reasons, there is lack of qualified professionals in this area as well as of studentsmotivation in learning software testing related contents. To mitigate ...

Traditional approaches to teach software testing lack to align theory with practice in higher education. Problem Based Learning (PBL) is an alternative that allows learning through individual practical experiences. The objective of this paper is to ...

Learning computer programming is a challenging task as evidenced by high failure and dropout rates. Our work aims to overcome some difficulties of Software Engineering undergraduate students by collaborative learning practices of computer programming. ...

The need for software with quality, low cost and differential, the constant changes in the mart and the need for fast and flexible software development companies, led to the creation of a new approach to software development, the agile methods seek to ...

The health of the software ecosystems concerns to the growing and continuity to exist remaining variable and productive over time. Research on this area is becoming more important. Even today, no studies have been available summarizing the research on ...

The development of innovative software usually happens in an environment of high uncertainty conditions regarding the problem, the solution, and business issues. Thus, the software needs to be delivered fast and iteratively to the intended customers, ...

Refactoring is a technique commonly applied by developers along the software maintenance and evolution. Software refactoring is expected to improve the internal quality attributes of a software project, such as coupling and cohesion. However, there is ...

Test case prioritization (TCP) techniques aim to reorder test cases execution according to a goal. One common goal is fault detection, in which test cases that have a higher chance of detecting a fault are executed first than the remaining test cases. ...

To ensure software quality, we can use static and dynamic analysis techniques. Both have advantages and disadvantages and should be used together to improve their performance. In this paper, we present a strategy for applying a set of mutation operators ...

When a software design decision has a negative impact on one or more quality attributes, we call it a design problem. For example, the Fat Interface problem indicates that an interface exposes non-cohesive services Thus, clients and implementations of ...

In a Mobile Software Ecosystem (MSECO), there is no direct communication between the organizations that maintain mobile platforms (e.g. Apple, Google, and Microsoft) and developers to solve technical questions. Thus, Q&A repositories can serve as a ...

Keeping the source code clean and organized throughout the software development and evolution is a challenging task. Due to many factors, design choices that cause the overall code structure to decay may be made and implemented, so that benefits, such ...

Past researchs have been trying to recommend artifacts that are likely to change together in a task to assist developers in making changes to a software system, often using techniques like association rules. Association rules learning is a data mining ...

Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPLs) are Software Product Lines (SPLs) in which the configuration may occur at runtime. DSPL approaches provide means for modeling variability as well as configuring the product according to its runtime context and/or ...

Code review is a potential means of improving software quality. To be effective, it depends on different factors, and many have been investigated in the literature to identify the scenarios in which it adds quality to the final code. However, factors ...

Mobile apps have been introduced in our lives and as a specific class of software, developers and testers have to deal with new challenges. For instance, testing all configurations and characteristics of apps might be an expensive activity. It would be ...

Empirical evaluations developed in the software engineering area have been widely applied as a formalism to validate and ensure the credibility of the works proposed by the researchers. Even though the adoption of empirical evaluation techniques has ...