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Patricia Dockhorn Costa
Researcher at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Publications - 43
Citations - 2123
Patricia Dockhorn Costa is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Context (language use) & Rule-based system. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 43 publications receiving 2046 citations. Previous affiliations of Patricia Dockhorn Costa include Information Technology University & University of Twente.
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An Introduction to Agile Methods
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the history behind agile methods as well as the agile manifesto, a statement from the leaders of the agile movement, and concludes with an analysis of various agile methods.
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Empirical Findings in Agile Methods
Mikael Lindvall,Victor R. Basili,Barry Boehm,Patricia Dockhorn Costa,Kathleen Dangle,Forrest Shull,Roseanne Tesoriero,Laurie Williams,Marvin V. Zelkowitz +8 more
TL;DR: Researchers from four institutions organized an eWorkshop to synchronously and virtually discuss and gather experiences and knowledge from eighteen Agile experts spread across the globe, and found common success factors and identified warning signs of problems in Agile projects.
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What we have learned about fighting defects
Forrest Shull,Victor R. Basili,Barry Boehm,A.W. Brown,Patricia Dockhorn Costa,Mikael Lindvall,Dan Port,Ioana Rus,Roseanne Tesoriero,Marvin V. Zelkowitz +9 more
TL;DR: The results to date of a series of e-Workshops on software defect reduction are discussed, and reformulated heuristics can be useful both to researchers and practitioners, for pointing out gaps in the current state of the knowledge.
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Evaluating Software Architectures
TL;DR: This chapter briefly describes the concepts of software architecture and software architectural evaluations, describes a new process for software architectural evaluation, provides results from two case studies where this process was applied, and presents areas for future work.
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Context-aware, ontology-based, service discovery
TL;DR: This paper presents a novel approach for service discovery that uses ontologies to capture the semantics of the user’s query, of the services and of the contextual information that is considered relevant in the matching process.