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Sabrina Marczak

Also published under: S. S. Marczak

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Sabrina Marczak

Also published under: S. S. Marczak

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PPGCC - School of Technology - PUCRS
Porto Alegre
RS, Brazil

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Sabrina Marczak is an associate professor in Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul's Computer Science School. Contact her at sabrina.marczak@pucrs.br.(Based on document published on 28 March 2017).
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51
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438
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20032020
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A Study on Organizational IT Security in Mobile Software Ecosystems Literature

Caio Steglich;Azriel Majdenbaum;Sabrina Marczak;Rodrigo Santos

2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
Information security is a key topic for most organizations. With the digital revolution, smartphones have become popular not only for personal use but also within organizations where many employees use them for business purposes. As smartphones are increasingly present in organizations, it is necessary to understand what recommendations the literature provides for the safe use of such devices, hel...Show More

A Study on Organizational IT Security in Mobile Software Ecosystems Literature

Caio Steglich;Azriel Majdenbaum;Sabrina Marczak;Rodrigo Santos

Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |

Revisiting the Mobile Software Ecosystems Literature

Caio Steglich;Sabrina Marczak;Luiz Pedro Guerra;Luiz Henrique Mosmann;Marcelo Perin;Fernando Figueira Filho;Cleidson de Souza

2019 IEEE/ACM 7th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems (SESoS) and 13th Workshop on Distributed Software Development, Software Ecosystems and Systems-of-Systems (WDES)
Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (10)
Software Ecosystems are comprised of a technology platform, business models, internal and external developers, and engaging users. The popularity of smartphones brought along the mobile software ecosystems, such as iOS and Android, which are composed of a platform, a community of users and developers, mobile applications, and online application store, and evangelists that often promote the ecosyst...Show More

Revisiting the Mobile Software Ecosystems Literature

Caio Steglich;Sabrina Marczak;Luiz Pedro Guerra;Luiz Henrique Mosmann;Marcelo Perin;Fernando Figueira Filho;Cleidson de Souza

Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |

Boosting Agile by Using User-Centered Design and Lean Startup: A Case Study of the Adoption of the Combined Approach in Software Development

Ingrid Signoretti;Sabrina Marczak;Larissa Salerno;Augusto de Lara;Ricardo Bastos

2019 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)
Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (13)
Background: Despite the claimed benefits of an agile transformation, user involvement and added value are still reported as challenges in software development. A combined use of User-Centered Design and Lean Startup with Agile Development has been pointed out as a means to minimize these challenges. Aims: This paper aimed to characterize how a transformation to such combined approach takes place i...Show More

Boosting Agile by Using User-Centered Design and Lean Startup: A Case Study of the Adoption of the Combined Approach in Software Development

Ingrid Signoretti;Sabrina Marczak;Larissa Salerno;Augusto de Lara;Ricardo Bastos

Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |

Social Aspects and How They Influence MSECO Developers

Caio Steglich;Sabrina Marczak;Cleidson R.B. De Souza;Luiz Pedro Guerra;Luiz Henrique Mosmann;Fernando Figueira Filho;Marcelo Perin

2019 IEEE/ACM 12th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)
Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (6)
Mobile software ecosystem (MSECO) is a new software development paradigm for mobile technologies, having three main dimensions, namely: Technical, Business and Social. The literature has a considerable number of studies on Technical and business dimensions, but only a few studies focus on the social aspects of MSECOs. However, the literature has enough to provide evidence that the actors involved,...Show More

Social Aspects and How They Influence MSECO Developers

Caio Steglich;Sabrina Marczak;Cleidson R.B. De Souza;Luiz Pedro Guerra;Luiz Henrique Mosmann;Fernando Figueira Filho;Marcelo Perin

Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |

An Empirical Study on Task Documentation in Software Crowdsourcing on TopCoder

Luis Vaz;Igor Steinmacher;Sabrina Marczak

2019 ACM/IEEE 14th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)
Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (11)
In the Software Crowdsourcingcompetitive model, crowd members seek for tasks in a platform and submit their solutions seeking rewards. In this model, the task description is important to support the choice and the execution of a task. Despite its importance, little is known about the role of task description as support for these processes. To fill this gap, this paper presents a study that explore...Show More

An Empirical Study on Task Documentation in Software Crowdsourcing on TopCoder

Luis Vaz;Igor Steinmacher;Sabrina Marczak

Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |

[Journal First] Model Comprehension for Security Risk Assessment: An Empirical Comparison of Tabular vs. Graphical Representations

Katsiaryna Labunets;Fabio Massacci;Federica Paci;Sabrina Marczak;Flávio Moreira de Oliveira

2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |
Context: Tabular and graphical representations are used to communicate security risk assessments for IT systems. However, there is no consensus on which type of representation better supports the comprehension of risks (such as the relationships between threats, vulnerabilities and security controls). Vessey's cognitive fit theory predicts that graphs should be better because they capture spatial ...Show More

[Journal First] Model Comprehension for Security Risk Assessment: An Empirical Comparison of Tabular vs. Graphical Representations

Katsiaryna Labunets;Fabio Massacci;Federica Paci;Sabrina Marczak;Flávio Moreira de Oliveira

Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |

On the Empirical Evaluation of BDD Scenarios Quality: Preliminary Findings of an Empirical Study

Gabriel Oliveira;Sabrina Marczak

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW)
Year: 2017 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a set of software engineering practices which uses a ubiquitous language, one that business and technical people can understand, to describe and model a system by a series of textual scenarios. However, we believe that the value of those textual scenarios is connected with how well they convey and document the details discussed by the team about the behaviors n...Show More

On the Empirical Evaluation of BDD Scenarios Quality: Preliminary Findings of an Empirical Study

Gabriel Oliveira;Sabrina Marczak

Year: 2017 | Conference Paper |

A Preliminary Evaluation of a Gamification Framework to Jump Start Collaboration Behavior Change

Flavio Steffens;Sabrina Marczak;Fernando Figueira Filho;Christoph Treude;Cleidson R.B. de Souza

2017 IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)
Year: 2017 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
In this notes paper we report on a preliminary qualitative evaluation of a gamification framework to address collaboration issues in software engineering. Findings suggest that the use of game elements indeed is prone to motivate software developers to foster the resolution of collaboration issues in their teams. Our preliminary results motivated us to design large scale, in-depth, and longitudina...Show More

A Preliminary Evaluation of a Gamification Framework to Jump Start Collaboration Behavior Change

Flavio Steffens;Sabrina Marczak;Fernando Figueira Filho;Christoph Treude;Cleidson R.B. de Souza

Year: 2017 | Conference Paper |

The Best Software Development Teams Might be Temporary

Rafael Prikladnicki;Marcelo Gattermann Perin;Sabrina Marczak;Alessandra Costa Smolenaars Dutra

IEEE Software
Year: 2017 | Volume: 34, Issue: 2 | Magazine Article |
Cited by: Papers (2)
A study of a large company's software development projects indicates that quality often suffers if team members have worked together previously. Thus, in many cases, temporary teams might be best.Show More

The Best Software Development Teams Might be Temporary

Rafael Prikladnicki;Marcelo Gattermann Perin;Sabrina Marczak;Alessandra Costa Smolenaars Dutra

Year: 2017 | Volume: 34, Issue: 2 | Magazine Article |

Identifying Code Smells with Collaborative Practices: A Controlled Experiment

Roberto Oliveira;Bernardo Estácio;Alessandro Garcia;Sabrina Marczak;Rafael Prikladnicki;Marcos Kalinowski;Carlos Lucena

2016 X Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse (SBCARS)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (11)
Code smells are often considered as key indicators of software quality degradation. If code smells are not systematically removed from a program, its continuous degradation may lead to either major maintenance effort or the complete redesign of the system. For several reasons, software developers introduce smells in their code as soon as they start to learn programming. If novice developers are ou...Show More

Identifying Code Smells with Collaborative Practices: A Controlled Experiment

Roberto Oliveira;Bernardo Estácio;Alessandro Garcia;Sabrina Marczak;Rafael Prikladnicki;Marcos Kalinowski;Carlos Lucena

Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |

Agile Team Members Perceptions on Non-functional Testing: Influencing Factors from an Empirical Study

Cristina Rosa Camacho;Sabrina Marczak;Daniela S. Cruzes

2016 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (14)
Non-functional requirements define the overall qualities or attributes of a system. Although important, they are often neglected for many reasons, such as pressure of time and budget. In agile software development, there is a focus on the feature implementation and delivery of value to the customer and, as such, non-functional aspects of a system should also be of attention. Non-functional require...Show More

Agile Team Members Perceptions on Non-functional Testing: Influencing Factors from an Empirical Study

Cristina Rosa Camacho;Sabrina Marczak;Daniela S. Cruzes

Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |

Automated Decision Support IoT Framework

Willian Tessaro Lunardi;Leonardo Amaral;Sabrina Marczak;Fabiano Hessel;Holger Voos

2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
During the past few years, with the fast development and proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), many application areas have started to exploit this new computing paradigm. The number of active computing devices has been growing at a rapid pace in IoT environments around the world. Consequently, a mechanism to deal with this different devices has become necessary. Middleware systems solutio...Show More

Automated Decision Support IoT Framework

Willian Tessaro Lunardi;Leonardo Amaral;Sabrina Marczak;Fabiano Hessel;Holger Voos

Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |

Challenges and Lessons Learned on Preparing Graduate Students for GSE Work: Brazilians' Perceptions on a Multi-site Course Experience

Josiane Kroll;Caroline Q. Santos;Letícia S. Machado;Sabrina Marczak;Rafael Prikladnicki

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Global Software Engineering (GSE) has became a part of the academic curricula in Computer Science courses. However, training students for GSE inherits the challenges of teaching Software Engineering (SE) in globally distributed environments. Furthermore, the most related experience in teaching graduate students reveals difficulties in developing GSE competencies. In this paper, we report the Brazi...Show More

Challenges and Lessons Learned on Preparing Graduate Students for GSE Work: Brazilians' Perceptions on a Multi-site Course Experience

Josiane Kroll;Caroline Q. Santos;Letícia S. Machado;Sabrina Marczak;Rafael Prikladnicki

Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |

Communication Challenges and Strategies in Distributed DevOps

Elisa Diel;Sabrina Marczak;Daniela S. Cruzes

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (29)
Even though agile actively seeks collaboration from all its stakeholders, most agile projects do not extend themselves toward the operations people. To solve this problem, DevOps is introduced. DevOps is a conceptual framework for reintegrating development and operations of Information Systems, which is able to break the wall between developers and operations professionals. DevOps improves the wor...Show More

Communication Challenges and Strategies in Distributed DevOps

Elisa Diel;Sabrina Marczak;Daniela S. Cruzes

Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |

Breaking Collaboration Barriers through Communication Practices in Software Crowdsourcing

Leticia Machado;Josiane Kroll;Sabrina Marczak;Rafael Prikladnicki

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (10)
Software Crowdsourcing (SW CS) is an emerging area in Software Engineering (SE). It has a dynamic nature in which problems are opened up to crowds of people through an open call to solve problems with the incentive of prizes for the best solutions. Although SW CS has been increasingly adopted in the software industry, many open issues are still to be elucidated. For instance, collaboration aspects...Show More

Breaking Collaboration Barriers through Communication Practices in Software Crowdsourcing

Leticia Machado;Josiane Kroll;Sabrina Marczak;Rafael Prikladnicki

Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |

Communication in Distributed Software Development: A Preliminary Maturity Model

Ivaldir de Farias Junior;Sabrina Marczak;Rodrigo Santos;Hermano Moura

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (4)
This paper presents a preliminary communication maturity model named C2M. The C2M model aims to help organizations to identify the maturity of communication-related aspects and processes providing a tool to reveal what practices need to be improved. The model is composed of three maturity areas respectively organized into factors, goals, and practices. It has been preliminarily evaluated in two st...Show More

Communication in Distributed Software Development: A Preliminary Maturity Model

Ivaldir de Farias Junior;Sabrina Marczak;Rodrigo Santos;Hermano Moura

Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |

What is Agile, Which Practices are Used, and Which Skills are Necessary according to Brazilian Professionals: Findings of an Initial Survey

Elisa Diel;Mariana Bergmann;Sabrina Marczak;Edimara Luciano

2015 6th Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods (WBMA)
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (7)
According to changes in the concept of quality of software products in recent years and in the profiles of professionals and customers, more and more companies prioritize agility and quality of their deliveries in order to meet their demands. A new way to guide the development of projects, which is adapted to this recent reality, is becoming increasingly popular in the IT market around the world: ...Show More

What is Agile, Which Practices are Used, and Which Skills are Necessary according to Brazilian Professionals: Findings of an Initial Survey

Elisa Diel;Mariana Bergmann;Sabrina Marczak;Edimara Luciano

Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |

On the Agile Transformation in a Large-Complex Globally Distributed Company: Why Boarding this Journey, Steps Taken and Main Foreseen Concerns

Greice Roman;Sabrina Marczak;Alessandra Dutra;Rafael Prikladnicki

2015 6th Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods (WBMA)
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
ORG, fictitious name, is a large company with complex-globally distributed projects that has recently started a "big-bang" transition to agile. About a year ago the new CIO announced it was time to aim for faster deliveries and decided on a company-wide roll-out to agile, including legacy systems. In this paper we report on an interview-based qualitative study that aimed to identify the reasons of...Show More

On the Agile Transformation in a Large-Complex Globally Distributed Company: Why Boarding this Journey, Steps Taken and Main Foreseen Concerns

Greice Roman;Sabrina Marczak;Alessandra Dutra;Rafael Prikladnicki

Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |

A controlled experiment with Usability Inspection Techniques applied to Use Case Specifications: comparing the MIT 1 and the UCE techniques

Natasha M. Costa Valentim;Jacilane Rabelo;Ana Carolina Oran;Tayana Conte;Sabrina Marczak

2015 ACM/IEEE 18th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS)
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
A Use Case Model is composed of use cases that describe software functionalities through Use Case Specifications. The evaluation of the specifications that compose such a model can allow for an early identification of usability defects. We previously proposed MIT 1-Model Inspection Technique for Usability Evaluation that aims to support the identification of usability defects through the evaluatio...Show More

A controlled experiment with Usability Inspection Techniques applied to Use Case Specifications: comparing the MIT 1 and the UCE techniques

Natasha M. Costa Valentim;Jacilane Rabelo;Ana Carolina Oran;Tayana Conte;Sabrina Marczak

Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |

Evaluating Collaborative Practices in Acquiring Programming Skills: Findings of a Controlled Experiment

Bernardo Estácio;Roberto Oliveira;Sabrina Marczak;Marcos Kalinowski;Alessandro Garcia;Rafael Prikladnicki;Carlos Lucena

2015 29th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (13)
[Context] Collaborative programming is achieved when two or more programmers develop software together. Pair Programming and Coding Dojo Randori are two increasingly adopted practices for collaborative programming. While the former encourages the collaboration in pairs, the latter promotes collaboration in groups. However, there is no broad understanding about the impact of these practices on the ...Show More

Evaluating Collaborative Practices in Acquiring Programming Skills: Findings of a Controlled Experiment

Bernardo Estácio;Roberto Oliveira;Sabrina Marczak;Marcos Kalinowski;Alessandro Garcia;Rafael Prikladnicki;Carlos Lucena

Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |

Context-aware system for information services provision in the Internet of Things

Everton de Matos;Leonardo A. Amaral;Ramão Tiburski;Willian Lunardi;Fabiano Hessel;Sabrina Marczak

2015 IEEE 20th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA)
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
In the last years a new computing paradigm called Internet of Things (IoT) has been gaining more attention. This paradigm has become popular by embedding mobile network and processing capability into a wide range of physical computing devices used in everyday life of many people. An important part that composes the IoT is the middleware, which is a system that abstracts the management of physical ...Show More

Context-aware system for information services provision in the Internet of Things

Everton de Matos;Leonardo A. Amaral;Ramão Tiburski;Willian Lunardi;Fabiano Hessel;Sabrina Marczak

Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |

Context-based search engine for industrial IoT: Discovery, search, selection, and usage of devices

Willian T. Lunardi;Everton de Matos;Ramão Tiburski;Leonardo A. Amaral;Sabrina Marczak;Fabiano Hessel

2015 IEEE 20th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA)
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
During the past few years, with the fast development and proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), many application areas have started to exploit this new computing paradigm. An interesting use of IoT is in the Industrial field, which has resulted in a new business concept called IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things). Another important fact is the number of active computing devices has been gr...Show More

Context-based search engine for industrial IoT: Discovery, search, selection, and usage of devices

Willian T. Lunardi;Everton de Matos;Ramão Tiburski;Leonardo A. Amaral;Sabrina Marczak;Fabiano Hessel

Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |

Reporting Empirical Evidence in Distributed Software Development: An Extended Taxonomy

Antonio Rafael Da Rosa da Rosa Techio;Rafael Prikladnicki;Sabrina Marczak

2015 IEEE 10th International Conference on Global Software Engineering
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (7)
Distributed Software Development (DSD) has been discussed by industry and academia for almost two decades now, and, as consequence, there is a large number of empirical scientific papers and industrial reports on it. However, the description of the context in which the empirical study was conducted is not always clear or complete, making the process of searching for empirical evidence burdensome. ...Show More

Reporting Empirical Evidence in Distributed Software Development: An Extended Taxonomy

Antonio Rafael Da Rosa da Rosa Techio;Rafael Prikladnicki;Sabrina Marczak

Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |

Knowledge Creation and Loss within a Software Organization: An Exploratory Case Study

Davi Viana;Tayana Conte;Sabrina Marczak;Raymundo Ferreira;Cleidson de Souza

2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (6)
Software development activities are very critical, since most of them heavily depend on individuals' knowledge and their capabilities. This knowledge must be retained and managed in order to avoid productivity breakdowns. This paper empirically explores how knowledge is created and lost in a software organization, and discusses implications for software development. This is done through a case stu...Show More

Knowledge Creation and Loss within a Software Organization: An Exploratory Case Study

Davi Viana;Tayana Conte;Sabrina Marczak;Raymundo Ferreira;Cleidson de Souza

Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |

The Interplay among Trust, Risk, and Reliance in Global Systems Engineering Teams

Sabrina Marczak;Ban Al-Ani;David Redmiles;Rafael Prikladnicki

2014 IEEE 9th International Conference on Global Software Engineering
Year: 2014 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
Trust is an integral element of any collaboration. We sought to investigate the interplay among trust, risk, and reliance within the context of Global Systems Engineering (GSE) teams. To this end, we conducted an empirical study of individuals' processes and considerations when presented with hypothetical scenarios that required long-term and short-term commitments, in addition to relinquishing co...Show More

The Interplay among Trust, Risk, and Reliance in Global Systems Engineering Teams

Sabrina Marczak;Ban Al-Ani;David Redmiles;Rafael Prikladnicki

Year: 2014 | Conference Paper |

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