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European Conference on Software Process Improvement

EuroSPI 2017: Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement pp 231–240Cite as

Deploying a Gamification Framework for Software Process Improvement: Preliminary Results

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Gamification is intended to increase engagement and motivation among its users by means of a set of game design elements. This field of study has expanded in popularity in the recent years in several areas needed to improve engagement among their actors. One of this areas is software engineering. This discipline is a human-centric activity needed of motivated engineers performing a wide panoply of tasks. In this scenario, in this paper authors present an effort conducted to deploy a gamification framework devoted to increase engagement among software practitioners in software process improvement initiatives. Preliminary results show both encouraging outcomes and areas of improvement in the implementation approach and in the needed breadth of areas or processes involved in the gamification proposal.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Av. Universidad 30, Leganés, 28911, Madrid, Spain

    Eduardo Herranz

  2. Faculty of Computer Sciences, Østfold University College, Postboks 700, 1757, Halden, Norway

    Ricardo Colomo-Palacios

  3. Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Abdullah Al-Barakati

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  3. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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Herranz, E., Colomo-Palacios, R., Al-Barakati, A. (2017). Deploying a Gamification Framework for Software Process Improvement: Preliminary Results. In: Stolfa, J., Stolfa, S., O'Connor, R., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 748. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64218-5_18

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