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Roadblocks to Attracting Students to Software Testing Careers: Comparisons of Replicated Studies
Rodrigo E. C. Souza, Ronnie E. de Souza Santos, Luiz Fernando Capretz +2
Context. Recently, a family of studies highlighted the unpopularity of software testing careers among undergraduate students in software engineering and computer science courses. T…
Practices to Improve Teamwork in Software Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethnographic Study
Ronnie E. de Souza Santos, Paul Ralph
Context. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, software professionals had to abruptly shift to ostensibly temporary home offices, which affected teamwork in several ways. Goal. This study…
A Grounded Theory of Coordination in Remote-First and Hybrid Software Teams
Ronnie E. de Souza Santos, Paul Ralph
While the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on software professionals and organizations are difficult to predict, it seems likely that working from home, remote-first team…
Work Design and Job Rotation in Software Engineering: Results from an Industrial Study
Ronnie Santos, Marian Teresa Baldassarre, Fabio Queda Bueno da Silva +3
Job rotation is a managerial practice to be applied in the organizational environment to reduce job monotony, boredom, and exhaustion resulting from job simplification, specializat…
Computer Games Are Serious Business and so is their Quality: Particularities of Software Testing in Game Development from the Perspective of Practitioners
Ronnie Santos, Cleyton Magalhaes, Luiz Fernando Capretz +3
Over the last several decades, computer games started to have a significant impact on society. However, although a computer game is a type of software, the process to conceptualize…
Would You Like to Motivate Software Testers? Ask Them How
Ronnie Santos, Cleyton Magalhaes, Jorge Correia-Neto +3
Context. Considering the importance of software testing to the development of high quality and reliable software systems, this paper aims to investigate how can work-related factor…