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What Skills do IT Companies look for in New Developers? A Study with Stack Overflow Jobs
João Eduardo Montandon, Cristiano Politowski, Luciana Lourdes Silva +3
Context: There is a growing demand for information on how IT companies look for candidates to their open positions. Objective: This paper investigates which hard and soft skills ar…
Are the Old Days Gone? A Survey on Actual Software Engineering Processes in Video Game Industry
Cristiano Politowski, Lisandra Fontoura, Fabio Petrillo +1
In the past 10 years, several researches studied video game development process who proposed approaches to improve the way how games are developed. These approaches usually adopt a…
Learning from the past: A process recommendation system for video game projects using postmortems experiences
Cristiano Politowski, Lisandra M. Fontoura, Fabio Petrillo +1
Context: The video game industry is a billion dollar industry that faces problems in the way games are developed. One method to address these problems is using developer aid tools,…
A Large Scale Empirical Study of the Impact of Spaghetti Code and Blob Anti-patterns on Program Comprehension
Cristiano Politowski, Foutse Khomh, Simone Romano +4
Context: Several studies investigated the impact of anti-patterns (i.e., "poor" solutions to recurring design problems) during maintenance activities and reported that anti-pattern…
Game Industry Problems: an Extensive Analysis of the Gray Literature
Cristiano Politowski, Fabio Petrillo, Gabriel C. Ullmann +1
Context: Given its competitiveness, the video-game industry has a closed-source culture. Hence, little is known of the problems faced by game developers. However, game developers d…
Are Game Engines Software Frameworks? A Three-perspective Study
Cristiano Politowski, Fabio Petrillo, João Eduardo Montandon +2
Game engines help developers create video games and avoid duplication of code and effort, like frameworks for traditional software systems. In this paper, we explore open-source ga…
Dataset of Video Game Development Problems
Cristiano Politowski, Fabio Petrillo, Gabriel Cavalheiro Ullmann +2
Different from traditional software development, there is little information about the software-engineering process and techniques in video-game development. One popular way to sha…