Gamified Exploratory GUI Testing of Web Applications: a Preliminary Evaluation

Fulcini, Tommaso; Ardito, Luca

doi:10.1109/icstw55395.2022.00045

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“…When considering Software Engineering and its various disciplines, gamified strategies are adopted at many different steps such as: testing (e.g., Bell et al present testing as quests to complete [39]; Fraser et al present Code Defenders, a competitive game where one player plays as the hacker and the other has to find defects through tests [40]; Fulcini and Ardito [41] present a gamified plugin for Scout [42], a tool for automated exploratory testing of graphical user interfaces); requirements definition (e.g., Snipes et al present a gamified environment where requirements elicitation is enhanced with voting, rankings and leaderboards [43]); and development (e.g., graphical achievements provided by the Visual Studio IDE). This growing trend of adaptation is promising and encouraging, but the reviews also note that there is still a lack of strong empirical evidence for the benefits of gamification, meaning that future research is still required.…”

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BIPMIN: A Gamified Framework for Process Modeling Education

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Business Process Modeling is a skill that is becoming sought after for computer engineers, with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) being one example of the tools used in modeling activities. Students of the Master of Computer Engineering course at Politecnico di Torino learn about BPMN in dedicated courses but often underperform on BPMN-related exercises due to difficulties understanding how to model processes. In recent years, there has been a surge of studies that employ gamification (using game elements in non-recreative contexts to obtain benefits) as a tool in Computer Engineering education to increase students’ engagement with the learning process. This study aims to use the principles of gamification to design a supplementary learning tool for the teaching of information systems technology. In particular, to improve student understanding and use of BPMN diagrams. This study also analyzes the usability and motivation of the participants in using different game elements in increasing student motivation and performance. As part of the study, a prototype web application was developed, which implemented three different designs, each incorporating different game elements relating to either progress, competition, or rewards. An evaluation was then conducted on the prototype to evaluate the performance of the practitioners in performing BPMN modeling tasks with the gamified tool, the usability of the proposed mechanics and the enjoyment of the individual game mechanics that were implemented. With the usage of the gamified tool, the users of the experimental sample were able to complete BPMN modeling tasks with performances compatible with estimates made through expert judgement (i.e., gamification had no negative effect on performance), and were motivated to check the correctness of their models many times during the task execution. The system was evaluated as highly usable (85.8 System Usability Score); the most enjoyed game elements were rewards, levels, progress bars and aesthetics.

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“…Gamification has been explored for incentivizing practitioners to write tests and adopt good testing practices [24]. For this, gamification has been integrated into integrated development environments [47], browsers [23], and continuous integration [3], with results suggesting that gamification can improve test automation. There have also been attempts to gamify aspects of testing such as test-to-code traceability [37] or acceptance testing [40].…”

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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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Introduction to Software Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts

Cooper

2023

Software Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts

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Gamified Exploratory GUI Testing of Web Applications: a Preliminary Evaluation

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

BIPMIN: A Gamified Framework for Process Modeling Education

BIPMIN: A Gamified Framework for Process Modeling Education

Gamekins: Gamifying Software Testing in Jenkins

Introduction to Software Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts

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