5 papers
On the Use of a Large Language Model to Support the Conduction of a Systematic Mapping Study: A Brief Report from a Practitioner's View
Cauã Ferreira Barros, Marcos Kalinowski, Mohamad Kassab +1
The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) has drawn growing interest within the scientific community. LLMs can handle large volumes of textual data and support methods for evidence s…
M&SCheck: Towards a Checklist to Support Software Engineering Newcomers to the Modeling and Simulation Area
Luiza Martins de Freitas Cintra, Philipp Zech, Mohamad Kassab +3
The advent of increasingly complex and dynamic ecosystems, such as digital twins (DT), smart cities and Industry 4.0 and 5.0, has made evident the need to include modeling and simu…
The Presence and the State-of-Practice of Software Architects in the Brazilian Industry -- A Survey
Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto, Diana Lorena Santos, Andrey Gonçalves França +4
Context: Software architecture intensely impacts the software quality. Therefore, the professional assigned to carry out the design, maintenance and evolution of architectures need…
Large Language Model for Qualitative Research -- A Systematic Mapping Study
Cauã Ferreira Barros, Bruna Borges Azevedo, Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto +4
The exponential growth of text-based data in domains such as healthcare, education, and social sciences has outpaced the capacity of traditional qualitative analysis methods, which…
The Perceptions of Software Engineers Concerning the Utilization of Bots in the OSS Development Process: An Exploratory Survey
Danyellias Vaz de Lima Manso, Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto, Mohamad Kassab
Software bots, extensively adopted by Open Source Software (OSS) projects, support developers across several activities, from automating predefined tasks to generating code that ai…