Ricardo Ferreira Vilela

@usp.br

University of São Paulo

121

Scholar Citations

6

Scholar h-index

3

Scholar i10-index

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