6 papers
Fairness Testing in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: How Small Perturbations Reveal Bias in Small Language Models
Matheus Vinicius da Silva de Oliveira, Jonathan de Andrade Silva, Awdren de Lima Fontao
Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used across multiple domains but continue to raise concerns regarding security and fairness. Beyond known attack vectors such as data poison…
Socio-Technical Smell Dynamics in Code Samples: A Multivocal Review on Emergence, Evolution, and Co-Occurrence
Arthur Bueno, Bruno Cafeo, Maria Cagnin +1
Code samples play a pivotal role in open-source ecosystems (OSSECO), serving as lightweight artifacts that support knowledge transfer, onboarding, and framework adoption. Despite t…
Generating Proto-Personas through Prompt Engineering: A Case Study on Efficiency, Effectiveness and Empathy
Fernando Ayach, Vitor Lameirão, Raul Leão +5
Proto-personas are commonly used during early-stage Product Discovery, such as Lean Inception, to guide product definition and stakeholder alignment. However, the manual creation o…
The Developer Experience of LGBTQIA+ People in Agile Teams: a Multivocal Literature Review
Edvaldo Wassouf, Débora Paiva, Kiev Gama +1
Research on underrepresented populations is essential for fostering greater diversity within the software industry. Team diversity is important for reasons that go beyond ethics. D…
Investigating the Developer eXperience of LGBTQIAPN+ People in Agile Teams
Edvaldo Wassouf, Pedro Fukuda, Awdren Fontão
Diversity in software teams drives innovation and enhances performance, but it also introduces challenges that require intentional management. LGBTQIAPN+ professionals in the softw…
Towards an Incident Management Framework in Proprietary Software Ecosystems
L. A. Costa, A. Fontão, R. P. Santos +1
In the evolving landscape of Software Engineering, the paradigm of software ecosystems has emerged, giving rise to proprietary software ecosystems (PSECO), with their central organ…