Yguaratã Cerqueira Cavalcanti

Here is the list of all my publications.

2011

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, I. C. do Machado, P. M. S. da Neto, L. L. Lobato, E. de Almeida, and S. R. L. de Meira, “Towards Metamodel Support for Variability and Traceability in Software
  Product Lines,” in Proceedings of the Fifth International WOrkshop on Variability Modeling
  of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS’2011), Namur, Belgium, 2011, pp. 49-57.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{CavalcantiVAMOS2011,
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Ivan do Carmo Machado and Paulo
    Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto and Luanna Lopes Lobato and Eduardo
    Santana de Almeida and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira},
    title = {Towards Metamodel Support for Variability and Traceability in Software
    Product Lines},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth International WOrkshop on Variability Modeling
    of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS'2011)},
    year = {2011},
    pages = {49-57},
    address = {Namur, Belgium},
    abstract = {In Software Product Lines (SPL), where a greater variety of products
    are derived from a common platform and constantly changed and evolved,
    it is important to manage the SPL variability and the traceability
    among its artifacts. This paper presents a metamodel which aims to
    coordinate SPL activities, by managing different SPL phases and their
    responsibles, and to maintain the traceability and variability among
    different artifacts. The metamodel was built for a SPL project in
    a private company working in the medical information management domain,
    which includes four products encompassing 102 different modules and
    840 features. The metamodel is divided into five sub-models: project
    and risk management, scoping, requirements and testing. It is represented
    in the UML notation. Organizations using this metamodel as basis
    for their approaches, can easily understand the relationships between
    the SPL assets, communicate to the stakeholders, and facilitate the
    evolution and maintenance of the SPL. The metamodel can also be adapted
    to the single system development context.},
    url = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/vamos2011_submission_30.pdf}
  }

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, P. A. M. S. da Neto, D. Lucrédio, T. Vale, E. S. de Almeida, and S. R. L. de Meira, “The bug report duplication problem: an exploratory study,” Software Quality Journal, pp. 1-28, 2011.
  [Bibtex]

  @ARTICLE{CavalcantiSQJ2011,
     Author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto and Daniel Lucrédio and Tassio Vale and Eduardo Santana de Almeida and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira},
     Title = {The bug report duplication problem: an exploratory study},
     Journal = {Software Quality Journal},
     Publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
     Issn = {0963-9314},
     Keyword = {Computer Science},
     Pages = {1-28},
     Year = {2011},
     Url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11219-011-9164-5},
     doi = {10.1007/s11219-011-9164-5},
     Abstract = {Duplicate bug report entries in bug trackers have a negative impact on software maintenance and evolution. This is due, among other factors, to the
         increased time spent on report analysis and validation, which in some cases takes over 20 min. Therefore, a considerable amount of time is lost in duplicate bug
         report analysis. In order to understand the possible factors that cause bug report duplication and its impact on software development, this paper presents an
         exploratory study in which bug tracking data from private and open source projects were analyzed. The results show, for example, that all projects we investigated
         had duplicate bug reports and a considerable amount of time was wasted by this duplication. Furthermore, features such as project lifetime, staff size, and the
         number of bug reports do not seem to be significant factors for duplication, while others, such as the submitters’ profile and the number of submitters, do seem to
         influence the bug report duplication.}}

2010

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, P. A. S. da Mota, E. S. de Almeida, D. Lucrédio, C. E. da Cunha, and S. R. L. de Meira, “One Step More to Understand the Bug Report Duplication Problem,” in XXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES’2010), Salvador, Brazil, 2010, pp. 149-158.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{CavalcantiSBES2010,
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Paulo Anselmo da Silveira Mota
    and Eduardo Santana de Almeida and Daniel Lucrédio and Carlos Eduardo
    Albuquerque da Cunha and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira},
    title = {One Step More to Understand the Bug Report Duplication Problem},
    booktitle = {XXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES'2010)},
    year = {2010},
    pages = {149-158},
    address = {Salvador, Brazil},
    month = {September},
    abstract = {According to recent work, duplicate bug report entries in bug tracking
    systems impact negatively on software mainte- nance and evolution
    productivity due to, among other fac- tors, the increased time spent
    on report analysis and vali- dation, what in some cases take over
    20 minutes. Therefore, a considerable amount of time is lost mainly
    with duplicate bug report analysis. In this sense, this work presents
    a char- acterization study using data from bug trackers from private
    and open source projects, in order to understand the possi- ble factors
    that cause bug report duplication and its impact on software development.
    This work also discusses bug report characteristics that could
    help identifying duplicates.},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/sbes2010-cstudy-camera-ready.pdf},
    date-added = {2010-06-25 11:33:10 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-10-04 12:19:34 -0300},
    url = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/sbes2010-cstudy-camera-ready.pdf}
  }

• P. A. M. S. da Neto, I. C. do Machado, Y. C. Cavalcanti, E. S. de Almeida, V. C. Garcia, and S. R. L. de Meira, “A Regression Testing Approach for Software Product Lines Architectures,” in Simpósio Brasileiro de Componentes, Arquiteturas e Reutilização de
  Software (SBCARS’2010), Salvador, Brazil, 2010, pp. 46-55.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{SilveiraSBCARS2010,
    author = {Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto and Ivan do Carmo Machado and
    Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Eduardo Santana de Almeida
    and Vinicius Cardoso Garcia and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira},
    title = {A Regression Testing Approach for Software Product Lines Architectures},
    booktitle = {Simpósio Brasileiro de Componentes, Arquiteturas e Reutilização de
    Software (SBCARS'2010)},
    year = {2010},
    pages = {46-55},
    address = {Salvador, Brazil},
    month = {September},
    abstract = {In the Software Product Lines context, where products are derived
    from a common platform, the reference architecture is considered
    the main asset. In order to maintain its correctness and reliability
    after modifications, a regression testing approach based on architecture
    specification and code was developed. It aims to reduce the testing
    effort, by reusing test cases, execution results, as well as, selecting
    and prioritizing an effective set of test cases. Taking advantage
    of SPL architectures similarities, this approach can be applied among
    product architectures and between the reference and product architecture.
    In this sense, this study also presents an evaluation performed in
    order to calibrate and improve the proposed approach.},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://XXXXX/73467.pdf},
    date-added = {2010-08-02 22:39:07 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-09-29 10:47:54 -0300},
    days = {27-1},
    keywords = {Specification, verification, and test of components; Software architectures
    and agile development; Evolution on software product lines; Case
    studies and experience reports}
  }

• C. E. A. da Cunha, Y. C. Cavalcanti, P. A. M. S. da Neto, E. S. de Almeida, and S. R. L. de Meira, “A Visual Bug Report Analysis and Search Tool,” in Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Software
  Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’2010), San Franciso, California, USA, 2010, pp. 742-747.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{CunhaSEKE2010,
    author = {Carlos Eduardo Albuquerque da Cunha and Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti
    and Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto and Eduardo Santana de Almeida
    and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira},
    title = {A Visual Bug Report Analysis and Search Tool},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Software
    Engineering \& Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2010)},
    year = {2010},
    pages = {742--747},
    address = {San Franciso, California, USA},
    month = {July},
    abstract = {According to recent work, duplicate bug reports in bug trackers impact
    negatively on software maintenance and evolution productivity due
    to, among other factors, the increased time spent on report analysis
    and validation. In order to solve this problem, this work presents
    and evaluates a tool based on Information Visualization techniques,
    aiming to assist developers during analysis and identification of
    duplicate bug reports. The tool development was supported by a survey
    conducted to identify the best opportunities for visualization techniques,
    according to the cognitive process for understanding bug reports
    information.},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Cunha-cameraready-ID288.pdf},
    date-added = {2010-07-30 14:47:11 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-10-04 12:20:19 -0300},
    url = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Cunha-cameraready-ID288.pdf}
  }

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, E. A. de Santana, and S. R. L. de Meira, “A Bug Report Analysis and Search Tool and Its Empirical Validation,” in Concurso de Teses e Dissertações em Qualidade de Software (CTDQS), Belém (PA), Brazil, 2010.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{CavalcantiCTDQS2010,
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Eduardo Almeida de Santana
    and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira},
    title = {A Bug Report Analysis and Search Tool and Its Empirical Validation},
    booktitle = {Concurso de Teses e Dissertações em Qualidade de Software (CTDQS)},
    year = {2010},
    address = {Belém (PA), Brazil},
    month = {jun},
    abstract = {According to recent work, duplicate bug report entries in bug trackers
    impact negatively on software maintenance and evolution productivity
    due to, among other factors, the increased time spent on report analysis.
    Such type of duplication is characterized by the submission of two
    or more bug reports that describe the same software issue. In this
    sense, this dissertation investigates and characterizes the problem
    of bug report duplication and proposes a solution to it.},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ctdqs2010-cameraready.pdf},
    date-added = {2010-07-30 14:47:11 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-10-04 12:21:05 -0300},
    days = {8-8},
    url = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ctdqs2010-cameraready.pdf}
  }

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, P. A. M. da Silveira
  Neto, I. C. do Machado, E. S. de Almeida, and S. R. L. de Meira, “Evaluating a Tool for Bug-report Analysis and Search,” in Proceedings of 7th Experimental Software Engineering Latin American
  Workshop (ESELAW’2010), Goiânia, Goias, Brazil, 2010, pp. 110-120.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{CavalcantiESELAW2010,
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira
    Neto and Ivan do Carmo Machado and Eduardo Santana de Almeida and
    Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira},
    title = {Evaluating a Tool for Bug-report Analysis and Search},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of 7th Experimental Software Engineering Latin American
    Workshop (ESELAW'2010)},
    year = {2010},
    pages = {110-120},
    address = {Goiânia, Goias, Brazil},
    abstract = {Bug report tracking systems have been used to facilitate the mainte-
    nance and evolution of software. However, duplicate entries of bug
    reports in such systems can considerably impact on productivity within
    software project. This reduction in productivity occurs because duplicate
    entries demand more time for search and analysis of bug reports.
    In this context, this paper presents the main problems caused by
    bug report duplication problem. In addition, a tool for bug reports
    search and analysis (BAST) is proposed to deal with the duplica-
    tion avoidance, as well as, it also presents a case study to evaluate
    the tool. For the evaluation, we compared BAST against a baseline
    tool in a private company for software testing. The results showed
    that BAST worked better than the other one, both for reduce the time
    of analysis, as well as, to reduce the number of duplicates submitted.},
    date-added = {2010-09-29 10:44:49 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-11-24 10:56:52 -0300}
  }

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, E. S. de Almeida, C. E. A. da Cunha, D. Lucrédio, and S. L. de Meira, “An Initial Study on the Bug Report Duplication Problem,” in Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance
  and Reengineering (CSMR’2010), Madrid, Spain, 2010, pp. 273-276.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{CavalcantiCSMR2010,
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Eduardo Santana de Almeida
    and Carlos Eduardo Albuquerque da Cunha and Daniel Lucrédio and Silvio
    Romero de Lemos Meira},
    title = {An Initial Study on the Bug Report Duplication Problem},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance
    and Reengineering (CSMR'2010)},
    year = {2010},
    pages = {273--276},
    address = {Madrid, Spain},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    abstract = {According to recent work, duplicate bug report entries in bug tracking
    systems impact negatively on software maintenance and evolution productivity
    due to, among other factors, the increased time spent on report analysis
    and validation, what in some cases take over 20 minutes. Therefore,
    a considerable amount of time is lost mainly with duplicate bug report
    analysis. This work presents an initial characterization study using
    data from bug trackers from private and open source projects, in
    order to understand the possible factors that cause bug report duplication
    and its impact on software development.},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/csmr2010-cameraready.pdf},
    date-added = {2010-07-30 14:47:11 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-10-04 12:18:05 -0300},
    url = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/csmr2010-cameraready.pdf}
  }

2009

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, C. E. A. Cunha, E. S. de Almeida, and S. R. de Lemos
  Meira, “BAST – A Tool for Bug Report Analysis and Search,” in XXIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES’2009), Fortaleza, Brazil, 2009.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{CavalcantiSBES2009,
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Carlos Eduardo Albuquerque
    da Cunha and Eduardo Santana de Almeida and Silvio Romero de Lemos
    Meira},
    title = {BAST - A Tool for Bug Report Analysis and Search},
    booktitle = {XXIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES'2009)},
    year = {2009},
    address = {Fortaleza, Brazil},
    abstract = {Bug tracker systems have been used to facilitate maintenance and evolution
    of software. However, duplicate entries of bug reports in such systems
    impact on the development productivity. It happens mainly because
    developers must carefully analyze incoming bug reports to check their
    validity, which some can take more than 20 minutes to be analyzed.
    In this sense, this work presents a tool for bug reports search and
    analysis, in order to improve such tasks.},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/sbes2009-bast-cameraready.pdf},
    date-added = {2010-07-30 14:47:11 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-10-04 12:21:49 -0300},
    url = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/sbes2009-bast-cameraready.pdf}
  }

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, “BAST: A Bug Report Analysis and Search Tool,” Master Thesis, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, 2009.
  [Bibtex]

  @MASTERSTHESIS{CavalcantiMSc2009,
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti},
    title = {BAST: A Bug Report Analysis and Search Tool},
    school = {Federal University of Pernambuco},
    year = {2009},
    address = {Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil},
    abstract = {Software maintenance and evolution are characterised by their huge
    cost and slow speed of implementation. Yet they are inevitable activities
    -- almost all software that is useful and successful stimulates user-generated
    requests for change and improvements. \citeauthor{Sommerville2007}
    is even more emphatic and says that software changes is a fact of
    life for large software systems. In addition, a set of studies has
    stated along the years that software maintenance and evolution is
    the most expensive phase of software development, taking up to 90\%
    of the total costs.
  
    All those characteristics from software maintenance lead the academia
    and industry to constantly investigate new solutions to reduce costs
    in such phase. In this context, Software Configuration Management
    (SCM) is a set of activities and standards for managing and evolving
    software; SCM defines how to record and process proposed system changes,
    how to relate these to system components, among other procedures.
    For all these tasks it has been proposed different tools, such as
    version control systems and bug trackers. However, some issues may
    arise due to these tools usage, such as the dynamic assignment of
    a developer to a bug report or the bug report duplication problem.
  
    In this sense, this dissertation investigates the problem of bug report
    duplication emerged by the use of bug trackers on software development
    projects. The problem of bug report duplication is characterized
    by the submission of two or more bug reports that describe the same
    software issue, and the main consequence of this problem is the overhead
    of rework when managing these bug reports.},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://yguarata.com/blog/?page_id=61},
    date-added = {2010-07-30 14:51:13 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-07-30 14:51:13 -0300},
    url = {http://yguarata.com/blog/m-sc-in-computing-science/}
  }

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, A Bug Report Analysis and Search Tool: Improving search and analysis
  of duplicate bug reports, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009.
  [Bibtex]

  @BOOK{CavalcantiLAMBERT2009,
    title = {A Bug Report Analysis and Search Tool: Improving search and analysis
    of duplicate bug reports},
    publisher = {LAP Lambert Academic Publishing},
    year = {2009},
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://amzn.com/3838329449},
    url = {http://amzn.com/3838329449}
  }

2008

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, E. S. Almeida, C. E. A. da Cunha, E. R. Pinto, and S. L. Meira, “The Bug-Report Duplication Problem: a characterization study,” C.E.S.A.R and Federal University of Pernambuco, 2008.
  [Bibtex]

  @TECHREPORT{CavalcantiTechCESAR2008,
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Eduardo Santana Almeida and
    Carlos Eduardo Albuquerque da Cunha and Eduardo Ribas Pinto and Silvio
    Romero Lemos Meira},
    title = {The Bug-Report Duplication Problem: a characterization study},
    institution = {C.E.S.A.R and Federal University of Pernambuco},
    year = {2008},
    month = {February},
    date-added = {2010-07-30 14:47:11 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-07-30 14:47:11 -0300},
    owner = {yguarata},
    timestamp = {2008.02.24}
  }

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, A. C. Martins, E. S. Almeida, and S. R. L. Meira, “Evitando CRs Duplicadas em Projetos Open Source de Software (in portuguese),” in IX Fórum Internacional de Software Livre — IX Workshop the Software
  Livre (FISL’2008), 2008.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{CavalcantiFISL2008,
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Alexandre Costa Martins and
    Eduardo Santana Almeida and Silvio Romero Lemos Meira},
    title = {Evitando CRs Duplicadas em Projetos Open Source de Software (in portuguese)},
    booktitle = {IX Fórum Internacional de Software Livre -- IX Workshop the Software
    Livre (FISL'2008)},
    year = {2008},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Evitando-Relatos-de-CRs-Duplicadas-em-Projetos-Open-Source-de-Software.pdf},
    date-added = {2010-07-30 14:47:11 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-10-04 12:47:01 -0300},
    url = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Evitando-Relatos-de-CRs-Duplicadas-em-Projetos-Open-Source-de-Software.pdf}
  }

2007

• F. Soares, L. Mariz, Y. C. Cavalcanti, J. P. Rodrigues, M. G. Neto, Petrus
  Bastos, A. C. Almeida, D. Pereira, R. Seabra, and J. Albuqueruqe, “Adoção de SCRUM em uma Fábrica de Desenvolvimento Distribuído de
  Software,” in XXI Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software — I Workshop de
  Desenvolvimento Distribuído de Software (WDDS’2007), João Pessoa, Brazil, 2007.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{SoaresWDDS2007,
    author = {Felipe Soares and Leila Mariz and Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti
    and Joseane Pereira Rodrigues and M{\'a}rio Godoy Neto and Petrus
    Bastos and Ana Carina Almeida and Daniel Pereira and Rafael Seabra
    and Jones Albuqueruqe},
    title = {Adoção de SCRUM em uma Fábrica de Desenvolvimento Distribuído de
    Software},
    booktitle = {XXI Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software -- I Workshop de
    Desenvolvimento Distribuído de Software (WDDS'2007)},
    year = {2007},
    address = {João Pessoa, Brazil},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/adocao-de-scrum-em-uma-fabrica-de-desenvolvimento.pdf},
    date-added = {2010-07-30 14:47:11 -0300},
    date-modified = {2010-10-04 12:33:25 -0300},
    url = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/adocao-de-scrum-em-uma-fabrica-de-desenvolvimento.pdf}
  }

• Y. C. Cavalcanti, H. Almeida, and E. Barros
  Costa, “Um Arcabouço open source em Python para DBC com Suporte à  Evolução
  Dinâmica nâo Antecipada,” in VIII Fórum Internacional de Software Livre — VIII Workshop de
  Software Livre (FISL’2007), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2007.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{CavalcantiFISL2007,
    author = {Yguarat{\~a} Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Hyggo Almeida and Evandro Barros
    Costa},
    title = {Um Arcabouço open source em Python para DBC com Suporte à  Evolução
    Dinâmica nâo Antecipada},
    booktitle = {VIII F{\'o}rum Internacional de Software Livre -- VIII Workshop de
    Software Livre (FISL'2007)},
    year = {2007},
    address = {Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil},
    bdsk-url-1 = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/pycf.pdf},
    date-modified = {2010-10-04 12:31:02 -0300},
    url = {http://yguarata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/pycf.pdf}
  }