Ricardo Ferreira Vilela
@usp.br
University of São Paulo
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- CoderBot 2.0: Integrating LLM and Prompt Engineering in the Evolution of an Educational Chatbot
A Mendes, A Parizotto, R Garcia, M Garcia, G Guedes, R Vilela, P Valle, ...
Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE), 1497-1506 , 2025
2025
Citations: 1 - Chatbot Development through Design Thinking Techniques: An Exploratory Study from Students’ Perspective
JEA Villa, RF Vilela, PH Valle, W Silva
Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software (SBQS), 497-507 , 2025
2025
Citations: 1 - Evaluating design fiction for requirements elicitation in a digital game: an exploratory experimental study
BR Leifheit, CC Júnior, JPM Ferreira, A Oliveira, R Vilela, P Valle, W Silva
Simpósio Brasileiro de Jogos e Entretenimento Digital (SBGames), 354-366 , 2025
2025
Citations: 2 - Tecnologias de Avaliação da Experiência do Usuário (UX) em Chatbots: Um Mapeamento Sistemático da Literatura
M Rocha, P Soares, L Caldeira, P Souza, RF Vilela, PHD Valle, W Silva
Workshop sobre Bots na Engenharia de Software (WBOTS), 21-30 , 2025
2025 - An Intelligent Agent for Automated Test Generation from OpenAPI Specifications
RF Vilela, SA de Andrade, EBF Santos, W Silva, PHD Valle
Workshop sobre Bots na Engenharia de Software (WBOTS), 67-76 , 2025
2025 - An Experience Report on User-Centered Chatbot Design through Design Thinking
BM Ribeiro, KHS Souza, LG Silva, J Villa, RF Vilela, PHD Valle, W Silva
Workshop sobre Bots na Engenharia de Software (WBOTS), 57-66 , 2025
2025
Citations: 1 - A Systematic Mapping Study on Chatbots in Programming Education
M Garcia, R Garcia, A Parizotto, A Mendes, P Valle, R Vilela, R Balancieri, ...
arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08857 , 2025
2025
Citations: 1 - Theory inspires, but examples engage: A mixed-methods analysis of worked examples from coderbot in programming education
RDS Garcia, JEA Villa, ALM Miranda, GTA Guedes, AC Oran, ...
IEEE Access , 2025
2025
Citations: 1 - Design Thinking in Human-Centered Chatbot Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study
JE Villa, GTA Guedes, P Silas, SD Souza, R Vilela
2025
Citations: 1 - A proposed catalog of development patterns for fault-tolerant microservices
FS Miranda, DS dos Santos, RF Vilela, WKG Assunção, RC dos Santos, ...
Proceedings of the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality, 406-416 , 2024
2024
Citations: 5 - From Data Integration to Innovation Diffusion: The Role of Information Systems into Empowering Innovation Ecosystems
AA Araújo, R Vilela, P Accioly, D Netto, EB Tomaz, S Câmara
Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (SBSI), 273-276 , 2024
2024 - Soft Skills of Software Developers: Exploring the Pandemic's Impact of COVID-19
RM da Silva, RF Vilela, PHD Valle
Proceedings of the XXII Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality, 100-109 , 2023
2023 - Soft and hard skills of software testing professionals: A comprehensive survey
PHD Valle, RF Vilela, G Guerino, W Silva
Proceedings of the XXII Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality, 90-99 , 2023
2023
Citations: 13 - Aprendendo com os erros dos outros: Um relato sobre a adoção de exemplos errôneos como ferramenta de aprendizagem de casos de uso
W Silva, ALM Mendes, R Garcia, M de Oliveira Ribeiro, R Vilela, ...
Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE), 69-80 , 2023
2023
Citations: 1 - Projeto e avaliação de um template de worked examples para o ensino de programação
ALM Miranda, R Garcia, GM Lunardi, R Vilela, PHD Vale, W Silva
Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE), 1673-1684 , 2023
2023
Citations: 3 - PMBOK Game II: Um Jogo Educacional para Apoiar o Ensino de Gestão de Projetos de Software
ACC Souza, FCM Souza, RF Vilela, PHD Valle
Workshop sobre Educação em Computação (WEI), 454-464 , 2023
2023
Citations: 4 - Percepção docente sobre o uso do whatsapp como ferramenta de comunicação no ensino remoto emergencial
I Calderon, P Valle, A Oran, R Vilela, R Lima, R Garcia, W Silva, E Feitosa
Workshop sobre Aspectos Sociais, Humanos e Econômicos de Software (WASHES … , 2023
2023
Citations: 1 - Bio‐inspired optimization to support the test data generation of concurrent software
R Ferreira Vilela, J Choma Neto, VH Santiago Costa Pinto, ...
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 35 (2), e7489 , 2023
2023
Citations: 8 - A strategy to support the infeasible test requirements identification
J Choma Neto, R Chagas, A Mori, R Vilela, T Colanzi, S Souza
Proceedings of the 7th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated … , 2022
2022 - Explorando a gamificaçao no ensino de decisoes arquiteturais: Um relato de experiência
JR Barbosa, PHD Valle, R Vilela, VVG Neto
RENOTE 20 (1), 153-162 , 2022
2022
Citations: 2
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Hedeg-heurísticas para avaliação de jogos educacionais digitais
PHD Valle, RF Vilela, PA Parreira Junior, CG Inocencio
Nuevas Ideas en Informática Educativa TISE 12, 2013 , 2013
2013
Citations: 43 - Soft and hard skills of software testing professionals: A comprehensive survey
PHD Valle, RF Vilela, G Guerino, W Silva
Proceedings of the XXII Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality, 90-99 , 2023
2023
Citations: 13 - Does Gamification Improve the Training of Software Testers? A Preliminary Study from the Industry Perspective✱
PHD Valle, RF Vilela, ECM Hernandes
Proceedings of the XIX Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality, 1-10 , 2020
2020
Citations: 10 - Bio‐inspired optimization to support the test data generation of concurrent software
R Ferreira Vilela, J Choma Neto, VH Santiago Costa Pinto, ...
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 35 (2), e7489 , 2023
2023
Citations: 8 - Evaluating the User Acceptance Testing for Multi-tenant Cloud Applications.
VHSC Pinto, RR Oliveira, RF Vilela, SRS Souza
CLOSER, 47-56 , 2018
2018
Citations: 8 - Bio-inspired optimization of test data generation for concurrent software
RF Vilela, VHSC Pinto, TE Colanzi, SRS Souza
International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering, 121-136 , 2019
2019
Citations: 7 - A proposed catalog of development patterns for fault-tolerant microservices
FS Miranda, DS dos Santos, RF Vilela, WKG Assunção, RC dos Santos, ...
Proceedings of the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality, 406-416 , 2024
2024
Citations: 5 - PMBOK Game II: Um Jogo Educacional para Apoiar o Ensino de Gestão de Projetos de Software
ACC Souza, FCM Souza, RF Vilela, PHD Valle
Workshop sobre Educação em Computação (WEI), 454-464 , 2023
2023
Citations: 4 - Erjed-uma técnica de elicitaçao de requisitos para jogos educacionais digitais
R Vilela, AC Inocêncio, PAP Júnior, P Valle
Brazilian Symposium on Computers in Education (Simpósio Brasileiro de … , 2015
2015
Citations: 4 - Projeto e avaliação de um template de worked examples para o ensino de programação
ALM Miranda, R Garcia, GM Lunardi, R Vilela, PHD Vale, W Silva
Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE), 1673-1684 , 2023
2023
Citations: 3 - Evaluating design fiction for requirements elicitation in a digital game: an exploratory experimental study
BR Leifheit, CC Júnior, JPM Ferreira, A Oliveira, R Vilela, P Valle, W Silva
Simpósio Brasileiro de Jogos e Entretenimento Digital (SBGames), 354-366 , 2025
2025
Citations: 2 - Explorando a gamificaçao no ensino de decisoes arquiteturais: Um relato de experiência
JR Barbosa, PHD Valle, R Vilela, VVG Neto
RENOTE 20 (1), 153-162 , 2022
2022
Citations: 2 - CoderBot 2.0: Integrating LLM and Prompt Engineering in the Evolution of an Educational Chatbot
A Mendes, A Parizotto, R Garcia, M Garcia, G Guedes, R Vilela, P Valle, ...
Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE), 1497-1506 , 2025
2025
Citations: 1 - Chatbot Development through Design Thinking Techniques: An Exploratory Study from Students’ Perspective
JEA Villa, RF Vilela, PH Valle, W Silva
Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software (SBQS), 497-507 , 2025
2025
Citations: 1 - An Experience Report on User-Centered Chatbot Design through Design Thinking
BM Ribeiro, KHS Souza, LG Silva, J Villa, RF Vilela, PHD Valle, W Silva
Workshop sobre Bots na Engenharia de Software (WBOTS), 57-66 , 2025
2025
Citations: 1 - A Systematic Mapping Study on Chatbots in Programming Education
M Garcia, R Garcia, A Parizotto, A Mendes, P Valle, R Vilela, R Balancieri, ...
arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08857 , 2025
2025
Citations: 1 - Theory inspires, but examples engage: A mixed-methods analysis of worked examples from coderbot in programming education
RDS Garcia, JEA Villa, ALM Miranda, GTA Guedes, AC Oran, ...
IEEE Access , 2025
2025
Citations: 1 - Design Thinking in Human-Centered Chatbot Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study
JE Villa, GTA Guedes, P Silas, SD Souza, R Vilela
2025
Citations: 1 - Aprendendo com os erros dos outros: Um relato sobre a adoção de exemplos errôneos como ferramenta de aprendizagem de casos de uso
W Silva, ALM Mendes, R Garcia, M de Oliveira Ribeiro, R Vilela, ...
Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE), 69-80 , 2023
2023
Citations: 1 - Percepção docente sobre o uso do whatsapp como ferramenta de comunicação no ensino remoto emergencial
I Calderon, P Valle, A Oran, R Vilela, R Lima, R Garcia, W Silva, E Feitosa
Workshop sobre Aspectos Sociais, Humanos e Econômicos de Software (WASHES … , 2023
2023
Citations: 1