Team


D.Sc. Students

  • Railana Santana (2020-2024) Supervisor

  • Luana Martins (2020-2024) Supervisor

  • Denivan Campos (2019-2023) Supervisor

  • Renata Souza (2018-2022) Supervisor

    1. Startups transitioning from early to growth phase - A pilot study of technical debt perception (ICSOB), 2020. [Best Paper Award]

    2. Investigating Agile Practices in Software Startups. 33rd Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), 2019. Short Paper

    3. A Case Study about Startups' Software Development Practices: A Preliminary Result. XVIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software (SBQS), 2019. Trilha de Resultados Preliminares

  • Glaucya Boechat (2016-2021) Co-supervisor

    1. Análise de Sentimentos em Discussões de Issues Reabertas do Github. VII Workshop on Software Visualization, Evolution and Maintenance (VEM), 2019. [Best Paper Award]

M.SC. Students

  • Anderson Nogueira (2020-20XX)

  • Joselito Mota Júnior (2019-20xx)

    1. Avaliação empírica de termos técnicos em issues de projetos opensource. Concurso de Trabalhos de Iniciação Científica (CTIC) - CSBC, 2020. [Award: 3rd Place]

  • Nildo Júnior (2018-20xx)

    1. A survey on test practitioners' awareness of test smells. XXIII Congresso Ibero-americano de Engenharia de Software (CIbSE), 2020. AR: 35%. [Best Paper Award]

  • Sara Oliveira (2018-20xx)

    1. Unveiling practitioners awareness of Android apps regression testing through an expert survey. 34º Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES) - Trilha de Ideias Inovadoras e Resultados Emergentes, 2020.

  • Franklin Silva (2018-20xx)

    1. Taming and Unveiling Software Reuse opportunities through White Label Software in Startups. 46th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), 2020. Short Paper

  • Caiza Fortunato (2017-20xx)

  • Brunna Mourão (2017-20xx)

    1. Software industry awareness on green and sustainable software engineering: a state-of-the-practice survey. 33rd Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), 2019. Award

    2. Green and Sustainable Software Engineering - A Systematic Mapping Study. XVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software (SBQS), 2018.

Former Students

_and the publications we had together_


D.Sc. in Computer Science (Software Engineering)

    1. Alcemir Santos, D.Sc. (2014-2017) co-supervisor - Thesis: Investigating Feature-Oriented Software Comprehension

      • Comparing the Influence of Using Feature-Oriented Programming and Conditional Compilation on Comprehending Feature-Oriented Software. Empirical Software Engineering (2019). DOI

      • Aspects Influencing Feature-Oriented Software Comprehesion. XI Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse (SBCARS 2017)

      • RiPLE-HC: Javascript Systems meets SPL Composition. 20th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2016)

      • RiPLE-HC: Views on the Features Scattering and Interactions. 20th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2016 - Tools, Data, and Demonstrations track)

    2. Larissa Soares, D.Sc. (2015-2019) co-supervisor - Thesis: Feature Interactions in Highly-Configurable Systems - A Dynamis Analysis Approach with VarXplorer

      • A semi-automated iterative process for detecting feature interactions. XXXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES), 2020.

      • Feature Interactions in Highly Configurable Systems: A Dynamic Analysis Approach with Varxplorer. Thesis and Dissertations on Software Engineering Contest (CTD-ES), 2020. Award

      • Feature interaction in software product line engineering: A systematic mapping study. Information and Software Technology (2018)

      • Non-Functional Properties in Software Product Lines. (VaMoS 2015)

    3. Crescencio Lima, D.Sc. (2015-2019) co-supervisor - Thesis: An Approach for Recovering Architectural Variability from Source Code

      • Recovering Architectural Variability from Source Code. XXXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES), 2020.

      • Product Line Architecture Recovery with Outlier Filtering in Software Families: The Apo-Games Case Study. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (2019). DOI

      • Recovering the Product Line Architecture of the Apo-Games. 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Challenge Track (SPLC 2018)

      • Towards an Automated Product Line Architecture Recovery: The Apo-Games Case Study. 12th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures, and Reuse (SBCARS 2018)


M.Sc. in Computer Science (Software Engineering)

    1. Denivan Campos (2016-2018) supervisor - M.Sc. Dissertation: MERCI - A Method to Evaluate Combinatorial Interaction Testing Tools for Software Product Lines (She is now a Ph.D. Student at UFBA, under my supervision)

      • MERCI - A Method to Evaluate Combinatorial Interaction Testing Tools for Software Product Lines. XVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software (SBQS 2018)

      • Testing Tools for Software Product Lines: A Comparative Analysis. VII Workshop de Teses e Dissertações do CBSoft (WTDSoft 2017)

    2. Edilton Santos (2016-2018) supervisor - M.Sc. Dissertation: SHE: An automated support for dynamic software product lines engineering (He is now a Ph.D. Student at University of Namur, Belgium)

      • Towards an Architecture Model for Dynamic Software Product Lines Engineering. IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2018)

      • An Architecture Model for DSPL Engineering. The 18th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2019)

    3. Tássio Virginio (2018-2020) - M.Sc. Dissertation: Avaliação empírica da geração automatizada de testes de software sob a perspectiva de test smells (PT-BR)

      • JNose: Java Test Smell Detector. 34th Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES) - Trilha de Ferramentas, 2020. [Best Paper Award]

      • An empirical study of automatically-generated tests from the perspective of test smells. 34th Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES), 2020. Short Paper

      • On the influence of Test Smells on Test Coverage. 33rd Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), 2019. Short Paper

    4. Leila Karita (2017-2020) - M.Sc. Dissertation: Characterizing sustainable software engineering trough a multi-method approach

      • Software industry awareness on green and sustainable software engineering: an extended survey (JSERD), 2021.

      • Software industry awareness on green and sustainable software engineering: a state-of-the-practice survey. 33rd Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), 2019.

      • Green and Sustainable Software Engineering - A Systematic Mapping Study. XVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software (SBQS), 2018.

    5. Railana Santana (2018-2020) - M.Sc. Dissertation: RAIDE - uma abordagem semi-automatizada para Identificação e Refatoração de Test Smells (PT-BR)

      • RAIDE: a tool for Assertion Roulette and Duplicate Assert identification and refactoring. XXXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES) - Trilha de Ferramentas, 2020.