65 citations · 165 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for
28 papers
Code Smells in Elixir: Early Results from a Grey Literature Review
Lucas Francisco da Matta Vegi, Marco Tulio Valente
Elixir is a new functional programming language whose popularity is rising in the industry. However, there are few works in the literature focused on studying the internal quality…
RAID: Tool Support for Refactoring-Aware Code Reviews
Rodrigo Brito, Marco Tulio Valente
Code review is a key development practice that contributes to improve software quality and to foster knowledge sharing among developers. However, code review usually takes time and…
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 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…
Beyond the Code: Mining Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Tracker Systems
Laerte Xavier, Fabio Ferreira, Rodrigo Brito +1
Self-admitted technical debt (SATD) is a particular case of Technical Debt (TD) where developers explicitly acknowledge their sub-optimal implementation decisions. Previous studies…
REST vs GraphQL: A Controlled Experiment
Gleison Brito, Marco Tulio Valente
GraphQL is a novel query language for implementing service-based software architectures. The language is gaining momentum and it is now used by major software companies, such as Fa…