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Software Solutions for Newcomers' Onboarding in Software Projects: A Systematic Literature Review
Italo Santos, Katia Romero Felizardo, Marco A. Gerosa +1
[Context] Newcomers joining an unfamiliar software project face numerous barriers; therefore, effective onboarding is essential to help them engage with the team and develop the be…
Game Elements to Engage Students Learning the Open Source Software Contribution Process
Italo Santos, Katia Romero Felizardo, Marco A. Gerosa +1
Contributing to OSS projects can help students to enhance their skills and expand their professional networks. However, novice contributors often feel discouraged due to various ba…
Successful Combination of Database Search and Snowballing for Identification of Primary Studies in Systematic Literature Studies
Claes Wohlin, Marcos Kalinowski, Katia Romero Felizardo +1
Background: A good search strategy is essential for a successful systematic literature study. Historically, database searches have been the norm, which has later been complemented…
Benefits and Drawbacks of a Graduate Course: An Experience Teaching Systematic Literature Review
Anderson Yoshiaki Iwazaki, Vinicius dos Santos, Katia Romero Felizardo +3
Graduate courses can provide specialized knowledge for Ph.D. and Master's students and contribute to develop their hard and soft skills. At the same time, Systematic Literature Rev…
Towards Sustainability of Systematic Literature Reviews
Vinicius dos Santos, Anderson Yoshiaki Iwazaki, Katia Romero Felizardo +2
Background: The software engineering community has increasingly conducted systematic literature reviews (SLR) as a means to summarize evidence from different studies and bring to l…
A Visual Analysis Approach to Update Systematic Reviews
Katia Romero Felizardo, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, Stephen G. MacDonell +1
Context: In order to preserve the value of Systematic Reviews (SRs), they should be frequently updated considering new evidence that has been produced since the completion of the p…
Using Visual Text Mining to Support the Study Selection Activity in Systematic Literature Reviews
Katia Romero Felizardo, Norsaremah Salleh, Rafael M. Martins +3
Background: A systematic literature review (SLR) is a methodology used to aggregate all relevant existing evidence to answer a research question of interest. Although crucial, the…
Analysing the use of graphs to represent the results of Systematic Reviews in Software Engineering
Katia Romero Felizardo, Mehwish Riaz, Muhammad Sulayman +3
The presentation of results from Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) is generally done using tables. Prior research suggests that results summarized in tables are often difficult…
A Systematic Mapping on the use of Visual Data Mining to Support the Conduct of Systematic Literature Reviews
Katia R. Felizardo, Stephen G. MacDonell, Emília Mendes +1
A systematic literature review (SLR) is a methodology used to find and aggregate all relevant existing evidence about a specific research question of interest. Important decisions…
Guidelines for the Search Strategy to Update Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering
Claes Wohlin, Emilia Mendes, Katia Romero Felizardo +1
Context: Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) have been adopted within Software Engineering (SE) for more than a decade to provide meaningful summaries of evidence on several topic…
When to Update Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering
Emilia Mendes, Claes Wohlin, Katia Felizardo +1
[Context] Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) have been adopted by the Software Engineering (SE) community for approximately 15 years to provide meaningful summaries of evidence o…
Establishing a Search String to Detect Secondary Studies in Software Engineering
Bianca Minetto Napoleao, Katia Romero Felizardo, Erica Ferreira de Souza +4
Context: A tertiary study can be performed to identify related reviews on a topic of interest. However, the elaboration of an appropriate and effective search string to detect seco…