<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-eeb1f9bf-7fff-459f-2fbb-57233aa384eb"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MSc. Jonatas Bastos, Ph.D. student in Comp. Science at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Paulo Cesar Masiero,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Paulo Anselmo Neto,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Ivan Machado,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Eduardo Almeida, Associate professor at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are conducting a survey to investigate and validate findings from a previous study that analyzes the history of the Linux Test Project (LTP). In the this study, we analyzed over 400,000 test cases, spanning the LTP for over 16 years of development and analyzing more than 63 million lines of code.  You are being contacted because of your contribution to the LTP project and your knowledge on Highly-configurable System and Tests.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">   We would like to invite you to answer a survey questionnaire to collect data for the Ph.D. research "Test evolution in highly-configurable systems ". The questionnaire has twenty-one questions and it should take no more than 20 minutes. Your responses are confidential and will be aggregated with other contributors who were invited. Your responses will be stored on a password-protected computer that is securely stored. Moreover, your responses are very important for the development of research in the field and contributes profoundly to the understanding of LTP.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">   If you have any questions about this study, please give us the opportunity to answer them. Otherwise, if you agree to participate in this survey, please access the</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePEESEVOCVtjuAIvm1BkToLJzEcxv_m4HBRiJzuRcQQ4DzHQ/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">online questionnaire</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, read and mark the consent term, and answer the questionnaire.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In the end of the process, you will be contacted with the Survey results. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you in advance.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jonatas Bastos, Paulo Cesar Masiero, Paulo Neto, Ivan Machado, and  Eduardo Almeida.</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Jonatas Bastos<br>------------------------------------------------------------ --------<br><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Professor de Computação no Instituto Federal (IFBA)<br><span style="font-family:arial">M.Sc. Computer Science - CIn/UFPE </span><br></span></font><div><font size="1">skype: jonatasfbastos<br>gtalk: jonatasfbastos@...</font><br><br>“Face your fears, live your dreams"<br></div></div></div></div>