Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are relevant issues in today’s society. Even though different resources can be used to approach this problem, technology provides endless possibilities to fight against this problem. This ...

People with disabilities have fewer opportunities. Technological developments should be used to help these people to have more opportunities. In this paper we present partial results of a research project which aims to ...

Several million people around the world use signs as their main mean of communication. The advances in technologies to recognize such signs will make possible the computer supported interpretation of sign languages. There ...

This research described the utilization of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to evaluate a high-level interactive scenario of using Nao Robot in the role of co-presenting in an educative context. ...

Context: Software testing is a costly and time-consuming activity. Automated testing of mobile applications is considered complex and difficult. Indeed, several factors such as a variety of inputs (user, context, and ...

El objetivo del presente estudio es caracterizar las prácticas de la ingeniería de software (SE) en la industria costarricense. Para alcanzar el objetivo se diseña y ejecuta una encuesta en línea con 46 preguntas basadas ...

Background: Function point analysis (FPA) has become widely used to measure software functional size in the industry. FPA is usually performed manually, which is a time consuming and expensive process. Automated Function ...

Software testing is an essential activity in software development projects for delivering high quality products. In a previous study, we reported the results of a survey of software engineering practices in the Costa Rican ...

Este artículo evalúa la creación de pruebas unitarias para un sistema de código legado usando dos técnicas alternativas: el framework de aislamiento Microsoft Fakes y el método de dobles de prueba. La organización en la ...

Este caso de estudio explora la aplicabilidad del nivel 1 del estándar para verificación de la seguridad de aplicaciones de OWASP en el contexto de una aplicación web de la industria financiera. Dos analistas de calidad ...