João Pablo da Silva

OntoQAI: An Ontology to Support Quality Assurance Inspections

According to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), the purpose of Process and Product Quality Assurance (PPQA) is to provide staff and management with objective insights about processes and their associated work products. Such purpose is usually achieved through the implementation of software inspections. Although software inspection be a common practice, it is time-consuming and expensive, which turns the implementation in small and medium-sized teams infeasible. To improve the software inspection, this paper proposes a domain ontology for representing the concepts of quality assurance inspection, which is independent, extensive, shareable and semantically strong. Through the ontology it is possible to provide a formal structure to support the development of software engineering solutions with quality. To support the quality assurance inspections, we developed an agent-based prototype that encapsulates the ontology model. The prototype is able to generate inspection checklists and automatically allocate noncompliance issues. We validated the approach through a case study that shows an increase of inspection coverage and adherence of process.

Problem-Based Learning to Align Theory and Practice in Software Testing Teaching

Traditional approaches to teach software testing lack to align theory with practice in higher education. Problem Based Learning (PBL) is an alternative that allows learning through individual practical experiences. The objective of this paper is to report experiences to teach software testing by using PBL in Software Engineering undergraduate course of Federal University of Pampa. The report covers two editions of Problem Solving course that involved 51 students and focused on students creating and running test cases across software components developed by professors. Data collection had been made by questionnaires with open and closed questions, and data was examined by statistics and Content Analysis technique. As results, we notice evidences of knowledge and perceptions maturing by students about software testing and software quality. We also verify its possible to mix PBL with other teaching methodologies such as gamification and to amplify their benefits.

O uso de Coding Dojo no aprendizado colaborativo de programação de computadores.

Ensinar e aprender programacao de computadores sao atividades desafiadoras dos cursos vinculados a informatica. Devido as dificuldades enfrentadas por estudantes, evidenciadas por altos indices de repetencia e evasao, novas estrategias sao necessarias para facilitar seu aprendizado e potencializar suas habilidades. Esse trabalho apresenta resultados parciais de um projeto desenvolvido na UNIPAMPA que e voltado ao apoio a aprendizagem e ao exercicio de programacao. O projeto propoe uma abordagem baseada em aprendizado colaborativo e na resolucao de problemas, utilizando Coding Dojo s como fio condutor. Foi observada participacao ativa dos alunos dos cursos de informatica da instituicao e, embora a experiencia tenha sido positiva para a maioria dos estudantes, o fator de exposicao revelou-se um complicador a ser enderecado.