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Gamification of Software Testing - An MLR

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2016)

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This paper presents an initial multi-vocal literature review that extracts ideas for gamification of software testing. We surveyed the type of testing, system under test, role of individuals, gamification elements, challenges and drawbacks, support constructs and tools, and empirical evidence from academic sources and grey literature. Ideas were given to both automated unit-testing, and end-user related testing done by exploratory testers and beta testers. The most frequent gamification elements were points (13 sources), awards (4), stories (4), badges (3), rankings (3), levels (3) and time-pressure (3).

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  1. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Mika V. Mäntylä

  2. Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

    Kari Smolander

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Correspondence to Mika V. Mäntylä .

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  1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Jedlitschka

  3. and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Anh Nguyen Duc

  4. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Felderer

  5. Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Japan

    Sousuke Amasaki

  6. Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

    Tommi Mikkonen

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Mäntylä, M.V., Smolander, K. (2016). Gamification of Software Testing - An MLR. In: Abrahamsson, P., Jedlitschka, A., Nguyen Duc, A., Felderer, M., Amasaki, S., Mikkonen, T. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10027. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_46

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