Gamification and Evaluation of the Use the Agile Tests in Software Quality Subjects: The Application of Case Studies

Elgrably, Isaac Souza; Oliveira, Sandro Ronaldo Bezerra

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“…• The game of agile testing aims at contributing to teach agile testing practices to students to prepare them for the demand for software development. The use of gamification components for the teaching of agile tests was also checked to be successful because the users were more committed to the tasks and engaged in the classes [27]. • 2TScrum aims to teach agile practices and suggests a board game to help Scrum's practical teaching.…”

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“…[78] Survey To assess the improvement of the development process of the organization by using the game [27] Assessment of activities performance To evaluate the learning [57] Questionnaire and focus group To collect feedback on game-playing experiences [22] Survey To measure intrinsic motivation and students expectation 6.3 | RQ3. What are the benefits of the SGs to teaching agile methods for software development?…”

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“…[78] The SG allowed practitioners to enhance individual and organizational productivity [27] The use of games as an instrument to help teaching has a positive effect on learning.…”

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Serious games for teaching agile methods: A review of multivocal literature

Rodríguez

Caino

Resett

2021

Comp Applic In Engineering

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Serious games (SGs) have emerged to improve the commitment and performance of user players, since they perform an exact mission, integrating with the game mechanics, thus creating a very attractive mission. In software engineering (SE), SGs have been addressed to increase the commitment of developers. Moreover, the use of SGs is of great interest to train and train future professionals to experience situations that they could face in software development. This study presents a multivocal literature review (MLR) to systematize and categorize the state-of-the-art of SGs for teaching Agile Methods. The MLR allowed software practitioners and teachers to identify cutting-edge methods for evaluating SGs, application domains in which the assessments were carried out, and the main features considered for assessing the educational benefits of SGs. For academics and professionals eager to test SGs in the training field of Agile Methods, the findings are helpful to (i) provide evidence regarding the usage of games in SE education, (ii) design game-based teaching/learning strategies, and (iii) offer a repertoire of tactics for assessing the use of SGs in SE courses. In conclusion, the knowledge collected was structured and classified to provide a response to our research questions, aimed at providing a summary of the key research in this area, as well as defining open issues in the field.

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Serious games for teaching agile methods: A review of multivocal literature

Rodríguez

Caino

Resett

2021

Comp Applic In Engineering

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“…The research questions were devised in conjunction with an educational expert, who is also responsible for game-based educational strategies. This researcher has extensive experience in these areas and collects publications, such as those listed by [38,49,51]. Frequent consultations were conducted with this researcher with the aim of overcoming construct validity problems.…”

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Teaching Method for Software Measurement Process Based on Gamification or Serious Games: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Furtado

Souza

Lima

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International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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Software process improvement programs are partly founded on software measurement. However, despite their importance, it has been pointed out in the literature that many students are leaving the academic world without the necessary skills to conduct this kind of process. This can be understood by people’s attitudes to this process which is regarded as time-consuming and difficult to understand—factors that explain the lack of interest in it during a student’s academic life. In light of this, the application of serious games or gamification can show useful alternative ways of meeting this need, because the strategies they involve are well accepted by students and have a motivational and engaging effect on them. The objective of this work is to discover different approaches to the teaching of software measurement and software process improvement through gamification projects and serious games. This involves carrying out a systematic review of the literature, which is aimed at characterizing the state-of-the-art on the use of methods related to gamification and serious games in the abovementioned subjects. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to identify primary studies that address the use, planning, or evaluation of gamification, serious games, their features, and game mechanics in software engineering. We located 137 primary studies, published between 2000 and 2019. Although the use of serious games and gamification in software engineering is not recent, there still remains a large area to be explored, especially in software process improvement and software measurement. The study expands and advances the research on how serious games and gamification proposals can be used for teaching software measurement in the context of software process improvement programs by conducting a systematic review of the literature.

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“…Given that agile methods and practices have gone mainstream and, along with them, there has been an increasing interest in testing, similar research efforts were conducted by Elgrably and Oliveira (2018) and Costa and Oliveira (2019). Elgrably and Oliveira set out to explore how gamification can be used to better teach agile testing practices to graduate and undergraduate students.…”

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Is It Worth Using Gamification on Software Testing Education? An Extended Experience Report in the Context of Undergraduate Students

Jesus

Ferrari

Paschoal

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Context: Testing is fundamental in the software development process. Nevertheless, testing education faces the key challenge of ensuring that undergraduate students acquire knowledge and skills they need for their future careers by matching what is taught in the classroom to industry standards. In this context, gamification can be used as an alternative educational approach. It uses game elements in real-world contexts in order to increase people's motivation and engagement in tasks that require external stimuli, especially in educational contexts.Objective: Reporting on results of an experimental study designed to assess the impact of gamification on software testing education, as well as reporting on the experience of building a supporting gamified platform. Method: We performed a systematic literature mapping aiming at characterizing how gamification has been explored in the software testing context. In addition, some of the problems faced by testing education were identified through an ad-hoc search. Then, we developed a gamified approach and a platform that have been used to run five 4-hour functional testing classes with undergraduate students from four Brazilian institutions of higher education.Results: Overall, students who learned with the traditional approach felt more motivated than those who learned with the gamified approach, whereas the performance of both groups were similar. On the other hand, feedback questionnaires indicated that the gamified class was more attractive (in terms of attention) and funny. Moreover, we observed that building a gamified platform is complex and challenging, particularly for the definition of the game mechanics and dynamics.Conclusion: Even though the results in terms of students' performance was neutral, and the motivation of students did not increase due to the introduction of gamification, the experience of having used this alternative approach is considered positive, as it provided a more enjoyable and funny environment, both from the researcher's and students' point of view. Furthermore, with this experience we foresee we can do better in terms of gamified teaching in future work.

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Gamification and Evaluation of the Use the Agile Tests in Software Quality Subjects: The Application of Case Studies

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Serious games for teaching agile methods: A review of multivocal literature

Serious games for teaching agile methods: A review of multivocal literature

Teaching Method for Software Measurement Process Based on Gamification or Serious Games: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Is It Worth Using Gamification on Software Testing Education? An Extended Experience Report in the Context of Undergraduate Students

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