Matheus Souza

Federal University of Piauí | UFPI · Departamento de Informática e Estatística

One of the essential activities for quality assurance in software development is the software testing. Studies report that Software Testing is one of the most costly activities in the development process, can reach up to 50 percent of its total cost. One of the great challenges of conducting software testing is related to the automation of a mechan...

Computational Intelligence (CI) is a sub-branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that focus on studying adaptive mechanisms to enable intelligent behavior in complex environments. CI techniques have been successful in solving complex problems in many different knowledge areas. However, despite their usefulness, developing solutions based on CI techn...

Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques have been used in many different knowledge areas in order to rationalize costs and potentially increase profits. Nevertheless, using this kind of technique is not straight forward, especi- ally in the case of sectors whose practitioners do not have enough programming knowledge. In order to facilitate the t...

A usuabilidade é uma característica muito relevante em relação à qualidade de um sistema. Entretanto, avaliar a usabilidade de sistemas geralmente é muito oneroso e complexo. Apesar de existirem diversos métodos propostos com o intuito de mitigar tais desvantagens das avaliações tradicionais, geralmente eles necessitam da alocação de tempo e de par...

Computational Intelligence techniques represent an emerging computational paradigm because they have been successful in solving complex problems in the most diverse areas, however, despite their usefulness, there are few tools that facilitate handling CI techniques to solve a specific problem and, to the best of our knowledge, there is no paper tha...

The usability evaluation of Web systems is crucial to increase end-users’ acceptance. However, the complexity and cost associated to usability evaluation discourage the execution of this activity. In this paper we present a tool called UseSkill, which aims to ease the execution of usability evaluation. The tool compares actions performed by “experi...

Computational Intelligence (CI) embraces tech-niques designed to address complex real-world problems in which traditional approaches are ineffective or infeasible. Some of these techniques are being used to solve several complex problems, such as the team allocation, building products portfolios in a software product line and test case selection/pr...

Tests are useful in many aspects related to quality assurance. A special aspect is the software validation by customers. This task does not require knowledge in programming languages or special technologies, because the customers should verify only the correctness of business rules. In this paper, it is proposed a tool that allows the creation of t...