About the Author

Raul Sidnei Wazlawick is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UFSC, in Florianópolis, Brazil. He has received a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science, and Doctor in Engineering (1993). Wazlawick was chair of the IFIP Working Group on Informatics and ICT in Higher-Education, trustee of the Brazilian Computer Society, general chair of the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (2006), and co-chair of the IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education (2009). He has published three textbooks in Portuguese and about 100 papers. His field of experience includes object-oriented systems, with which he has worked since 1986. Wazlawick’s main research interest is object-oriented software engineering. He is currently (2012–2015) heading a software development team that is developing software systems to support the Brazilian public health system.¹ He often makes presentations at universities, companies, and government institutions on topics related to software engineering. He also has worked as a software engineering consultant since the early 1990s.