The OPUS Research Group was founded in 2009 by Professor Alessandro Garcia on his arrival to the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. Several master and doctoral students and renowned international researchers belong to this community. We are working together within the field of software composition in order to:
- provide the means to empirically analyze the positive and negative effects of individual modularization mechanisms and techniques on key software quality attributes, and
- investigate new solutions for modularity that best fit the quality requirements of contemporary application domains.
News
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October 01, 2021
Our paper entitled Do Critical Components Smell Bad? An Empirical Study with Component-based Software Product Lines is Distinguished Paper Award at the 15th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures, and Reuse (SBCARS’21). The paper was led by our PhD student, Anderson Uchôa, and had the collaboration of professors and researchers from PUC-Rio.
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October 01, 2021
Professor Thelma Colanzi, member of OPUS, was Outstanding Reviewer at the 35th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES`21).
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September 23, 2021
Our paper entitled Do Critical Components Smell Bad? An Empirical Study with Component-based Software Product Lines was accepted at the 15th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures, and Reuse (SBCARS’21). The study was led by our PhD student, Anderson Uchôa, and had the collaboration of professors and researchers from PUC-Rio.
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July 12, 2021
Anderson Uchôa (member of OPUS Research Group) was recently accepted as a Substitute Professor in the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
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June 15, 2021
Our paper entitled Look Ahead! Revealing Complete Composite Refactorings and their Smelliness Effects was accepted at the 37th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’21). The study was led by our graduate student, Ana Carla Bibiano, and had the collaboration of professors and researchers from PUC-Rio, UFCG, and UFAL.