Experience report on teaching testing through gamification

Lorincz, Beata; Iudean, Bogdan; Veșcan, Andreea

doi:10.1145/3472673.3473960

Cited by 11 publications

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“…Various academic disciplines employ ELT, such as chemical engineering [1], tourism [14], computer science [32], and FBL [5]. There is a tendency to apply ELT for instructing or designing GBL without following specific guidance or models [10,11,13,22,26,28,31]. Conceptual and theoretical models are needed to guide the process of operating and designing GBL [4].…”

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Gamifying Experiential Learning Theory

Alsaqqaf

2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Motivating student learning and enhancing student learning performance can be done by gamifying existing learning systems via adding gaming elements to the systems, or by developing dedicated games for learning purposes. However, it is both costly and challenging to develop such systems, since it requires to fill the gap in cognition and knowledge between educators and game designers before they can properly transfer learning theories to game mechanics and elements for gamification or serious game implementation. This paper proposes to gamify experiential learning theory by mapping it to the positive and negative feedback mechanisms of the internal economy of game machinations. Hence, developing serious games becomes easier, since the effort of getting mutual understanding between educators and game designers can be effectively reduced. Our study assesses the proposed model by obtaining the experts' (game designers/educators) perceptions of the model mapping, and its usefulness and usability, via an online questionnaire. A total of 23 participants answered the questionnaire by stating that our model was useful and could suitably mapped the learning theory to game design. We also present a field-based learning game as an application of our proposed model.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gamifying Experiential Learning Theory

Alsaqqaf

2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Gamification has also been applied to software testing education, incorporating different gamification elements and concepts. Unplugged approaches use tools like Lego or dice to teach testing concepts [33]. Others utilize virtual races [7], quizzes [12], business trainings [51], or board games [36].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gamekins: Gamifying Software Testing in Jenkins

Straubinger,

Fraser

2022

2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion)

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Testing plays a crucial role in software development, and it is essential for software engineering students to receive proper testing education. However, motivating students to write tests and use automated testing during software development can be challenging. To address this issue and enhance student engagement in testing when they write code, we propose to incentivize students to test more by gamifying continuous integration. For this we use Gamekins, a tool that is seamlessly integrated into the Jenkins continuous integration platform and uses game elements based on commits to the source code repository: Developers can earn points by completing test challenges and quests generated by Gamekins, compete with other developers or teams on a leaderboard, and receive achievements for their test-related accomplishments. In this paper, we present our integration of Gamekins into an undergraduate-level course on software testing. We observe a correlation between how students test their code and their use of Gamekins, as well as a significant improvement in the accuracy of their results compared to a previous iteration of the course without gamification. As a further indicator of how this approach improves testing behavior, the students reported enjoyment in writing tests with Gamekins. CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Software testing and debugging; • Social and professional topics → Software engineering education.

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