In introductory courses of technology, students with difficulty in programming subjects have led to high dropout rates due to difficulties to understand algorithms, programming language, and paradigm concepts. Furthermore, ...

Software Quality Assurance is a sub-process that ensures that developed software meets and complies with defined or standardized quality specifications. Focusing on source code, there are characteristics that can be used ...

Software Quality Assurance is a sub-process that ensures that developed software meets and complies with defined or standardized quality specifications. Focusing on source code, there are characteristics that can be used ...

Well-written code (which meets standards, conventions, and quality specifications) is often associated with the programmer's experience, which is why companies have been looking for increasingly qualified professionals. ...

Legacy systems may have poor code quality, which makes its maintenance difficult, this problem is often called technical debt. In this context, this paper performs a study on agile refactoring practices and automated tests ...

Legacy systems may have poor code quality, which makes its maintenance difficult, this problem is often called technical debt. In this context, this paper performs a study on agile refactoring practices and automated tests ...

Android is nowadays the most popular operating system in the world, not only in the realm of mobile devices, but also when considering desktop and laptop computers. The wide and rapid adoption of Android-based devices has ...

This work presents an MPEG-compatible coding method designed for the production of visual information. Constant Bit Rate transmission is imposed. Some buffer control strategies, well suited for CBR and adapted to the ...