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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…

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Developers have to write thorough tests for their software in order to find bugs and to prevent regressions. Writing tests, however, is not every developer's favourite occupation, and if a lack of motivation leads to a lack of tests, then…

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Interruptions and context switches resulting from meetings, urgent tasks, emails, and queries from colleagues contribute to productivity losses in developers' daily routines. This is particularly challenging for tasks like software testing,…

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Software testing is an essential knowledge area required by industry for software engineers. However, software engineering students often consider testing less appealing than designing or coding. Consequently, it is difficult to engage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Raquel Blanco , Manuel Trinidad , Maria Jose Suarez-Cabal , Alejandro Calderon , Mercedes Ruiz , Javier Tuya

Gamification is an emerging technique to enhance motivation and performance in traditionally unengaging tasks like software testing. Previous studies have indicated that gamified systems have the potential to improve software testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Philipp Straubinger , Tommaso Fulcini , Giacomo Garaccione , Luca Ardito , Gordon Fraser

Software testing is a crucial phase in software development, enabling the detection of issues and defects that may arise during the development process. Addressing these issues enhances software applications' quality, reliability, user…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Giacomo Garaccione , Tommaso Fulcini , Paolo Stefanut Bodnarescul , Riccardo Coppola , Luca Ardito

Testing is an important aspect of software development, but unfortunately, it is often neglected. While test quality analyses such as code coverage or mutation analysis inform developers about the quality of their tests, such reports are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Philipp Straubinger , Gordon Fraser

Gamification has been applied in software engineering to improve quality and results by increasing people's motivation and engagement. A systematic mapping has identified research gaps in the field, one of them being the difficulty of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Óscar Pedreira , Félix García , Mario Piattini , Alejandro Cortiñas , Ana Cerdeira-Pena

Gamification is the use of game elements such as points, leaderboards, and badges in a non-game context to encourage a desired behavior from individuals interacting with an environment. Recently, gamification has found its way into software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Patrick Ayoup , Diego Elias Costa , Emad Shihab

Context: Gamification is an emerging subject that has been applied in different areas, bringing contributions to different types of activities. Objective: This paper aims to characterize how gamification has been adopted in non-educational…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Daniel Porto , Gabriela Jesus , Fabiano Ferrari , Sandra Fabbri

This paper investigates the integration and assessment of IntelliGame, a gamification plugin initially designed for Java development, within the realm of JavaScript unit testing. We aim to verify the generalizability of IntelliGame to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Philipp Straubinger , Tommaso Fulcini , Gordon Fraser , Marco Torchiano

Gamification has been used to motivate and engage participants in software engineering education and practice activities. There is a significant demand for empirical studies for the understanding of the impacts and efficacy of gamification.…

Gamification design has benefited from data-driven approaches to creating strategies based on students characteristics. However, these strategies need further validation to verify their effectiveness in e-learning environments. The…

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We describe the design and implementation of a reasoning engine that facilitates the gamification of loop-invariant discovery. Our reasoning engine enables students, computational agents and regular software engineers with no formal methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Andrew Walter , Seth Cooper , Panagiotis Manolios

Web applications play a crucial role in our daily lives, making it essential to employ testing methods that ensure their quality. Typically, Web testing automation frameworks rely on locators to interact with the graphical user interface,…

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The potential of using video games as well as gaming engines for educational and research purposes is promising, especially with the current progress of Industry 4.0 technologies such as augmented and virtual reality devices. However, it is…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-01-04 Janelle Resch , Ireneusz , Ocelewski , Judy Ehrentraut , Michael Barnett-Cowan

This study investigates learners' preferences for game design elements (GDEs) in educational contexts to inform the development of purpose-driven gamification strategies. It emphasizes a learner-centered approach that aligns gamification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Kai Marquardt , Mona Schulz , Anne Koziolek , Lucia Happe

As modern games continue growing both in size and complexity, it has become more challenging to ensure that all the relevant content is tested and that any potential issue is properly identified and fixed. Attempting to maximize testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Camilo Gordillo , Joakim Bergdahl , Konrad Tollmar , Linus Gisslén

The University of the Philippines Open University has been at the forefront of providing Massive Open Online Courses to address knowledge and skill gaps, aiming to make education accessible and contributing to societal goals. Recognising…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Cecille Moldez , Mari Anjeli Crisanto , Ma Gian Rose Cerdeña , Diego S. Maranan , Roberto Figueroa

As the significance of Software Engineering (SE) professionals continues to grow in the industry, the adoption of gamification techniques for training purposes has gained traction due to its potential to enhance class appeal through…

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