Simone R. S. Souza

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Simone R. S. Souza is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone R. S. Souza has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Software, 42 papers in Information Systems and 33 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Simone R. S. Souza's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (57 papers), Software Engineering Research (28 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (27 papers). Simone R. S. Souza is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (57 papers), Software Engineering Research (28 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (27 papers). Simone R. S. Souza collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Peru and United Kingdom. Simone R. S. Souza's co-authors include T. Werlang, Celso J. Villas-Bôas, F. F. Fanchini, Paulo Sérgio Lopes de Souza, Adenilso Simão, José Carlos Maldonado, Ed Zaluska, Ellen Francine Barbosa, Sílvia Regina Vergílio and Sandra Fabbri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Simone R. S. Souza

97 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone R. S. Souza Brazil	15	567	448	398	318	185	104	1.2k
J. C. Huang China	11	161 0.3×	112 0.3×	265 0.7×	200 0.6×	82 0.4×	55	682
Xiaofang Zhang China	15	173 0.3×	10 0.0×	466 1.2×	453 1.4×	306 1.7×	108	935
F. David Fracchia Canada	15	165 0.3×	126 0.3×	68 0.2×	244 0.8×	87 0.5×	33	846
Richard Rasala United States	15	170 0.3×	13 0.0×	108 0.3×	148 0.5×	38 0.2×	54	582
Chaim Katz Brazil	4	549 1.0×	13 0.0×	117 0.3×	129 0.4×	134 0.7×	8	947
Jeffrey W. Humphries United States	11	105 0.2×	13 0.0×	57 0.1×	187 0.6×	148 0.8×	21	483
Manuel Alfonseca Spain	13	313 0.6×	81 0.2×	93 0.2×	86 0.3×	88 0.5×	101	810
Bernard Vauquois France	8	636 1.1×	13 0.0×	120 0.3×	131 0.4×	134 0.7×	17	1.0k
Viera K. Proulx United States	18	160 0.3×	6 0.0×	149 0.4×	217 0.7×	60 0.3×	64	809

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Souza, Simone R. S., et al.. (2023). Siflor Cerrado: Sistema de Informações para Planejamento Florestal no Cerrado Brasileiro. 87–89.

Souza, Paulo Sérgio Lopes de, et al.. (2022). A survey on the practices of software testing: a look into Brazilian companies. 10. 3 indexed citations

Souza, Simone R. S., et al.. (2020). Teaching Scrum Practices with the Support of Brazilian Startups: an Initiative in Software Engineering Course.. Conferencia Iberoamericana de Software Engineering. 540–553. 1 indexed citations

Souza, Paulo Sérgio Lopes de, et al.. (2020). Towards a unified catalog of attributes to guide industry in software testing technique selection. 398–407. 6 indexed citations

Barbosa, Ellen Francine, et al.. (2020). A Systematic Identification of Pedagogical Conversational Agents. 1–9. 7 indexed citations

Durelli, Vinícius H. S., et al.. (2020). A Preliminary Investigation into Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Identify Minimal and Equivalent Mutants. 304–313. 7 indexed citations

Souza, Paulo Sérgio Lopes de, et al.. (2019). The World Teaching of Parallel and Distributed Programming. 8(1). 1–9. 1 indexed citations

Ferrari, Fabiano Cutigi, et al.. (2019). Is It Worth Using Gamification on Software Testing Education?. 178–187. 18 indexed citations

Carver, Jeffrey C., et al.. (2018). Empirical research on concurrent software testing: A systematic mapping study. Information and Software Technology. 105. 226–251. 11 indexed citations

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Souza, Simone R. S., et al.. (2018). A Survey on Software Testing Education in Brazil. 334–343. 14 indexed citations

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Souza, Simone R. S., et al.. (2016). A systematic review on search based mutation testing. Information and Software Technology. 81. 19–35. 59 indexed citations

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Zorzo, Avelino F., et al.. (2014). An empirical comparison of model-based and capture and replay approaches for performance testing. Empirical Software Engineering. 20(6). 1831–1860. 8 indexed citations

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Felizardo, Katia Romero, Simone R. S. Souza, & José Carlos Maldonado. (2013). The Use of Visual Text Mining to Support the Study Selection Activity in Systematic Literature Reviews: A Replication Study. 91–100. 14 indexed citations

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Souza, Simone R. S., et al.. (2012). Structural Testing for Multithreaded Programs: An Experimental Evaluation of the Cost, Strength and Effectiveness.. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 476–479. 2 indexed citations

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Bradbury, Jeremy S. & Simone R. S. Souza. (2012). Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing, Analysis, and Debugging. 61(4). 253–8. 3 indexed citations

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Souza, Paulo Sérgio Lopes de, Simone R. S. Souza, & Ed Zaluska. (2012). Structural testing for message‐passing concurrent programs: an extended test model. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 26(1). 21–50. 23 indexed citations

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Souza, Simone R. S., et al.. (2011). Using Coverage and Reachability Testing to Improve Concurrent Program Testing Quality. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 207–212. 8 indexed citations

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Souza, Simone R. S., et al.. (2005). ValiPar: A Testing Tool for Message-Passing Parallel Programs.. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 386–391. 6 indexed citations

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Neshich, Goran, Walter Rocchia, M. E. B. Yamagishi, et al.. (2004). JavaProtein Dossier: a novel web-based data visualization tool for comprehensive analysis of protein structure. Nucleic Acids Research. 32(Web Server). W595–W601. 32 indexed citations

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Simão, Adenilso, Simone R. S. Souza, & José Carlos Maldonado. (2003). A Family of Coverage Testing Criteria for Coloured Petri Nets. 205–220. 4 indexed citations

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