Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-160). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T18:49:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao.pdf: 13173235 bytes, checksum: 2e443f1be378cd31868216c0f74ead69 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-19 / The researcher (teacher), facing young people who are not interested in school was motivated to develop this research. It was chosen the Youth Action Program which encourages the completion of basic education, enabling young beneficiaries to continue learning for their personal and professional development. Young people aged from 15 to 24 years, of both sexes with incomplete elementary or high school and which are socially vulnerable. This research aimed to identify the economic determinants which may influence on the inclusion and permanence the young one at school and evaluate whether the program and the school have contributed to the professional and personal development of adolescents. The methodology used was qualitative research and study of study as the most appropriated method for a scientific socio-educational research. The work was initially developed as a reference assumptions, the main one was that the economic factor had great influence on the inclusion and permanence the young school, and possibly the Youth Action Program would have helped, since it consists of a monthly assistance payment This factor was discarded during the search, since other factors were presented and analyzed. The conclusion is that the program does not assist the teenagers who are the target of this proposal, and there is no integration between teacher / school management and the Youth Action Program, this type of program can only succeed from the daily struggle, and the effective participation of the society. It is needed to believe in the transformative power of human beings and stop seeing only the individual as the protagonist of an excluding society. / A pesquisadora (docente), diante de jovens desinteressados pela escola motivou-se para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa. Foi escolhido o Programa Ação Jovem que estimula a conclusão da escolaridade básica, possibilitando aos jovens beneficiários continuar o aprendizado para seu desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional. Os jovens são atendidos na faixa etária de 15 a 24 anos, de ambos os sexos, com ensino fundamental e médio incompleto e que se encontram em situação de vulnerabilidade social. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi identificar os determinantes econômicos na inclusão e permanência do jovem na escola e avaliar se o Programa e a escola têm contribuído para o desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional destes adolescentes. A metodologia empregada foi a pesquisa qualitativa e estudo de caso por ser a mais condizente cientificamente à investigação de caráter sócio-educativo. O trabalho desenvolvido teve inicialmente como referência pressupostos, o principal deles era que o fator econômico tivesse grande influência sob permanência e a inclusão do jovem na escola, e que possivelmente o Programa Ação Jovem teria auxiliado, já que consiste numa ajuda mensal pecuniária Este fator foi descartado no decorrer da pesquisa, pois outros fatores apresentaram-se e foram analisados. A conclusão é a de que o Programa não atende os adolescentes alvo da proposta, e que não há integração entre corpo docente/ gestão escolar e o Programa Ação Jovem, este tipo de programa só pode ser bem sucedido a partir da luta cotidiana e da efetiva participação da sociedade. È preciso acreditar no poder de transformação do ser humano e deixar de ver o individuo apenas como protagonista de uma sociedade excludente, imerso somente na pobreza.

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The constant modification of software during its life cycle poses many challenges for developers and testers because changes might not behave as expected or may introduce erroneous side effects. For those reasons, it is of critical importance to analyze, test, and validate software every time it changes. The most common method for validating modified software is regression testing, which identifies differences in the behavior of software caused by changes and determines the correctness of those differences. Most research to this date has focused on the efficiency of regression testing by selecting and prioritizing existing test cases affected by changes. However, little attention has been given to finding whether the test suite adequately tests the effects of changes (i.e., behavior differences in the modified software) and which of those effects are missed during testing. In practice, it is necessary to augment the test suite to exercise the untested effects. The thesis of this research is that the effects of changes on software behavior can be computed with enough precision to help testers analyze the consequences of changes and augment test suites effectively. To demonstrate this thesis, this dissertation uses novel insights to develop a fundamental understanding of how changes affect the behavior of software. Based on these foundations, the dissertation defines and studies new techniques that detect these effects in cost-effective ways. These techniques support test-suite augmentation by (1) identifying the effects of individual changes that should be tested, (2) identifying the combined effects of multiple changes that occur during testing, and (3) optimizing the computation of these effects.