Software engineering, evolution, and quality

Scope

This line gathers CEDIS’s tradition in software engineering: architecture and product lines, requirements engineering, quality, verification, validation and testing, and the process-related share of sustainable software development. The focus is on methods, models, and tools that make building and evolving software more predictable and the product more reliable over its lifetime.

Projects in this line arise both from partner organizations’ needs and from open questions in the literature, and feed undergraduate and graduate courses in Software Engineering.

Research questions

• How can software architectures be assessed and evolved in long-lived systems?
• Which requirements and quality practices reduce rework in small and medium teams?
• How can software be maintained and evolved without degrading quality, testability, and maintainability?

Main methods

• Case studies
• Controlled experiments
• Systematic reviews
• Action research with partner organizations

Recent output 133

1. 2026 ·Software/patent registration
   Computer program registration certificate: Chatbot as a Support Tool for Requirements Engineering
   Fause Carlos Mascarenhas Lustosa Junior, George Marsicano Corrêa, Pedro Henrique Muniz de Oliveira
2. 2026 ·Journal article
   Digital citizenship and information mediation in the use of e-Gov services by older adults: a study in the Federal District
   Ricardo Ajax Dias Kosloski, Leides Barroso de Azevedo Moura, Marília Miranda Forte Gomes
3. 2026 ·Undergraduate thesis
   Pipeline for the analysis of Brazilian biomolecules with an architecture based on microservices and GPUs
   Victorio Lázaro Rocha de Morais
4. 2026 ·Undergraduate thesis
   EstocAI: intelligent inventory manager
   Luis Eduardo Carneiro Miranda, Vinícius Mendes Martins
5. 2026 ·Undergraduate thesis
   Gamification as a Teaching Strategy for Code Smell Identification
   Luciano Ricardo da Silva Junior
6. 2026 ·Conference paper
   DevDog: A Gamified Web Platform for Teaching Code Smell Identification
   Luciano Ricardo da Silva Junior, Sergio Antônio Andrade de Freitas, André Luiz Peron Martins Lanna
7. 2026 ·Conference paper
   Adaptive Gamification as a Software Process Analytics Instrument: An Industrial Case Study in a High-Maturity Environment
   Bruno Mello Andrade, Sergio Antônio Andrade de Freitas
8. 2025 ·Master's dissertation
   Automated identification of elementary processes through HTTP request analysis
   Diego Emanuel Ferreira da Rocha

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Linked supervisions 75

1. 2026 · TCC1 (proposal)
   AI applied to Software Engineering: An analysis of the transformations caused by AI in Software Engineering development activities
   Ian Lucca Soares Mesquita, Christian Hirsch Santos
2. 2026 · Master's qualification
   Improving Software Quality through Gamification Techniques
   Lucas Pereira Gomes Linard
3. 2026 · Undergraduate thesis
   Pipeline for the analysis of Brazilian biomolecules with an architecture based on microservices and GPUs
   Victorio Lázaro Rocha de Morais
4. 2026 · Undergraduate thesis
   EstocAI: intelligent inventory manager
   Luis Eduardo Carneiro Miranda, Vinícius Mendes Martins
5. 2026 · Undergraduate thesis
   Gamification as a Teaching Strategy for Code Smell Identification
   Luciano Ricardo da Silva Junior
6. 2025 · Master's dissertation
   DevOps assessment model in cloud environments with DORA metrics: a study in the financial sector
   Emanuel Galhardo de Oliveira

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Line history

Aggregates and updates three lines the group already registered institutionally at UnB (SIGAA, 2021–present): Verification, Validation and Testing; Software Architecture; and Software Product Line Engineering. It corresponds to the Software Engineering sub-area of the CNPq Knowledge Areas Table.