An experimental card game for software testing: Development, design and evaluation of a physical card game to deepen the knowledge of students in academic software testing education

Soska, Alexander; Mottok, Jürgen; Wolff, Christian

doi:10.1109/educon.2016.7474609

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“…The collaboration-based method was utilized to create a card game, suggested by Soska et al [57]. This approach demonstrated that it is not required to implement an electronic video game to motivate the students, raise their engagement and encourage collaboration among them.…”

Section: A Card Game Experiments In Software Testing Classesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning environments in software testing education: An overview

Živković

Draskovic

Nikolić

2023

Comp Applic In Engineering

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Nowadays, we heavily depend on software, as we utilize it daily. Bugs in the software can cause significant damage, loss of private data and money, and even loss of human lives. Software testing and quality assurance discipline, which belongs to the software engineering domain, aims to ensure that the software is good enough before its release to the market. Therefore, it is vital to ensure that software engineers are highly trained in this domain. Unfortunately, this discipline is frequently neglected throughout software engineering courses. Students are mostly taught just the theoretical principles of software testing and gain little practical experience. Additionally, the software testing lectures are considered to be dull, especially if they are not followed by practical tasks where the students could apply learned techniques and gain hands‐on experience. Several tools, games, and collaborative learning environments have been proposed to make the lectures more interesting and increase student engagement. The main goal of this article is to provide a systematic survey of such environments, where each environment was evaluated in terms of major software testing topics covered and the approach used to engage the students.

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Section: A Card Game Experiments In Software Testing Classesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning environments in software testing education: An overview

Živković

Draskovic

Nikolić

2023

Comp Applic In Engineering

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“…All the sources except SCOPUS the researcher used a search strings and combined the outcome for each of the searches for every source [90]. To extract the STE related data from the selected sources search strings are used like "Software Testing OR education" "Software Testing Education AND systematic review" ''Software Testing Education AND literature assessment" ''Software Testing AND beyond studies" ''Software Testing education OR curriculum" ''Software testing AND activities" ''Software Testing AND evaluate of present studies" 'STE OR train" ''STE OR Guide" ''Testing the Software OR Education provide an explanation for" ''Software Testing OR Requirement'' ''Software Testing AND Testing processes" ''Software engineering" AND ''body of published research" [9].…”

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“…The ST demand has increased because of better software quality demands in the industry [1]. ST has multi-disciplinary steps that arranged the different kinds of the testing such as, Unit/System/Regression/ Integration/Alpha and Beta testing [9]. ST has been used to identify the faults/errors throughout the SDLC before the software released to the customer [10,11].…”

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Software Testing Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Farooq,

Tehseen,

Omer

et al. 2021

VFAST trans. softw. eng.

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Software Testing is the core part of computer science & engineering curriculum. It has been observed that software testing has been taught much in Computer science & engineering disciplines at undergraduate level. Software Testing Education (STE) involves time, cost, risk, quality, integration, communication, human resource, and procurement management skills. The STE at undergraduate and graduate level is a challenging task because it also requires knowledge and experience. This article aims to investigate and synthesize the state-of-the-art research in STE for the improvement of STE curriculum, pedagogical tools and techniques, cognitive, empirical and assessments methods. STE research approaches has been categorized into five categories including empirical type, research approaches, software testing education processes, key areas, and curricula. The ninety-seven articles for the area of STE have been chosen after rigorous systematic screening process published in during 2004 to 2021. Furthermore, tools and techniques, testing processes, pedagogy and student performance are the frequently addressed in STE; whereas assessment methods, gamification, curriculum and exemplary program development appeared as mostly ignored areas. Lastly, research gaps and challenges relate to STE has been presented as future directions for the faculty, software industry, and researchers.

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“…Gao-hui [10] works on the theory of games that might be helpful for software development. Soska et al [11] focused on students in their academic life. In this work, they created a game for teaching software testing to all students.…”

Section: Games In Software Engineering Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Auction‐based serious game for bug tracking

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Today, one of the challenges in software engineering is utilizing application lifecycle management (ALM) tools effectively in software development. In particular, it is hard for software developers to engage with the work items that are appointed to themselves in these ALM tools. In this study, we have focused on bug tracking in ALM where one of the most important metrics is mean time to resolution that is the average time to fix a reported bug. To improve this metric, we developed a serious game application based on an auction-based reward mechanism. The ultimate aim of this approach is to create an incentive structure for software practitioners to find and resolved bugs that are auctioned where participants are encouraged to solve and test more bugs in less time and improve quality of software development in a competitive environment. We conduct hypothesis tests by performing a Monte Carlo simulation. The preliminary results of this research support the idea that using a gamification approach for an issue tracking system enhances the productivity and decreases mean time to resolution.

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An experimental card game for software testing: Development, design and evaluation of a physical card game to deepen the knowledge of students in academic software testing education

Cited by 13 publications

References 14 publications

Learning environments in software testing education: An overview

Learning environments in software testing education: An overview

Software Testing Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Auction‐based serious game for bug tracking

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