Software Engineering Research in Brazil: An Analysis of the Last Five Editions of SBES

The Brazilian software engineering main conference is celebrating its silver jubilee. It is time to reflect on its current status and maturity. In this paper, our goals are (i) to give an overview of the recent SBES publications and (ii) to analyze their relevance to its community and to industry. We analyzed the last five editions of SBES proceedings to identify the type of articles, the research topics, the references to previous SBES publications and the relationship with industry. The results show us that the community is very active but it is time to reflect about the identified problems, to improve the interaction with industry, and to increase the collaboration network between the researchers.