Tatiana Bittencourt Gouveia

• PhD
• Project Manager at Federal University of Pernambuco

When applications intend to support accessibility, aspects of usability must be reviewed to adapt or extend common functional requirements that are implemented to ensure an easy use of applications. However, initiatives to develop guidelines for accessible mobile applications are recent and several approaches present only suggestions rather than a...

The current efforts to specify an usability guideline for accessible mobile applications are sparse and they are still far to present a concrete pattern. Our previous work carried out a broad survey to consolidate the findings of these efforts in a unique list with 36 requirements, 13 of them focused on vision impairments. In this paper we show the...

When multimedia applications intend to support accessibility, aspects of usability must be reviewed to adapt or extend common functional requirements that are implemented to ensure an easy use of applications. Furthermore, these requirements must be identified and analyzed in a contextualized way, since different types of impairments require differ...

Differently of the Web Accessibility Guidelines, which are already consolidated as a reference, the initiatives to develop guidelines for accessible mobile applications are recent and several approaches present only suggestions rather than a concrete list of functional requirements. This work analyzed 247 scientific articles to identify requirement...

The development of mobile applications that consider accessibility can uniquely make use of software extensions to provide special interfaces to people with impairments. However, such extensions are limited so that the use of external devices is a natural alternative. The current market provides several accessibility devices that can be coupled to...

The Technical Debt (TD) metaphor has been used in the software community as a way to manage and communicate the long-term consequences that some technical decisions may cause. Although intuitive, researches in TD do not discuss practical approaches to identify and monitor TD items, which could be applied in a transparent way during the process of s...

Context: The increase in the number of qualitative and mixed-methods research published in software engineering has created an opportunity for further knowledge generation through the synthesis of studies with similar aims. This is particularly true in the research on human aspects because the phenomena of interest are often better understood using...

Aim - The goal of this study is to investigate the relationships between the communication structure of a software team and the resulting architecture of the software developed under the perspective of Conway's Law. Method - A quasi-experiment was designed in an industrial context in which the results of two teams were compared. One team worked usi...

ContextThe internal composition of a work team is an important antecedent of team performance and the criteria used to select team members play an important role in determining team composition. However, there are only a handful of empirical studies about the use of team building criteria in the software industry.Objective The goal of this article...

In this article, we present a systematic mapping study of replications in software engineering. The goal is to plot the landscape of current published replications of empirical studies in software engineering research. We applied the systematic review method to search and select published articles, and to extract and synthesize data from the select...

Our goal in this study is to review the research related to the replication of empirical studies in software engineering in terms of replications of empirical studies and conceptual or theoretical work about replications. In this article we present the preliminary findings of this review, concentrating on the studies reporting replications and the...

The goal of this article is to identify criteria used in industrial practice to select members of a software project team, and to look for relationships between these criteria and project success. Initially, using semi-structured interviews for data collection and qualitative methods for data analysis and synthesis, a set of team building criteria...

Background/Aim - Given the relevance and importance that the understanding of motivation has gained in the field of software engineering, this work was carried out in order to update the results of a literature review carried out in 2006 on motivation in software engineering. Method - Based on guidelines for this specific type of study, we replicat...