Dossiê Viewpoints: estudos e práticas

Práticas e Desafios da Indústria Brasileira na Area de Engenharia de Requisitos

This article presents a brief description of the panel: "Practices and Challenges of the Brazilian Industry in the Requirements Engineering Area", part of the RE@Brazil program. It summarizes a session that promotes discussion and knowledge exchange between professionals from academy and industry. Five guest panelists were carefully chosen to provide a wide range of perspectives on the area of ...

Viewpoints on Viewpoints

This paper expresses the viewpoints, or opinions of the author on the use of viewpoints in the software development process. I will concentrate most of my attention on requirements engineering, but I also treat the topic in the broader environment of software development. I will state without much justiication, besides the presentation itself, key concepts that I believe are the basics for the ...

Avaliação de Características de Agilidade e Práticas Ágeis para Processos de Software

Context: It is believed that agility in software process can bring benefits to software development and lead to economy of efforts when accommodate changes is needed. Objective: Assess pertinence and relevance of agility characteristics and agile practices for software processes. Method: From 18 agility characteristics and 17 agile practices applicable to software processes revealed through sys...

CampusMates: encontrando parceiros de estudos

Recently observed social trends point to greater social approximation of individuals through technological platforms, as the increasing success of sites such as Orkut, MySpace, MSN, among others. The mobile social networks are also gaining adepts for having pervasives and customized features. In this demonstration, we show a concept of a mobile social network for students seeking study partners...

Agreement analysis in clinical and experimental trials Análise de concordância em estudos clínicos e experimentais