Acceptance testing of mobile applications

Scherr, Simon André; Elberzhager, Frank; Holl, Konstantin

doi:10.1145/3197231.3197259

Cited by 12 publications

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“…In the context of software testing, gamification has been applied in both professional (e.g., [37,40]) and educational (e.g., [5,21,22,51]) settings. Previous attempts to gamify software testing education have focused on specific aspects such as mutation testing [21] or security testing [22].…”

Section: Gamification Of Software Testingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…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]. While we also address continuous integration, our gamification approach aims to influence testing behavior directly, rather than the adoption of tools, and we use more different gamification elements.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Gamification Of Software Testingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…As most of users' information is digitalised, privacy is an important aspect to be considered during the development of ICTs for the protection of users' personal information [54][55][56]. According to the literature, privacy can be protected by analysing and eliciting privacy requirements from the early stages of a software lifecycle until the late design phases [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. In addition, several methods have been suggested to software developers for the accomplishment of this task [40][41][42][43][44].…”

Section: Privacy Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As they report, this technique conflicts with privacy as users' information can be compromised. Regarding the same privacy issue, Scherr et al [36] suggest a technique which protect users' faces. Specifically, they mention that the use of an animated emoji based on users' various expressions would support privacy protection, as users' characteristics will not be recorded.…”

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Gamification vs. Privacy: Identifying and Analysing the Major Concerns

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Gamification, the use of game design elements in applications that are not games, has been developed to provide attractive environments and maintain user interest in several domains. In domains such as education, marketing and health, where gamification techniques are applied, user engagement in applications has increased. In these applications the protection of users’ privacy is an important aspect to consider, due to the applications obtaining a record of the personal information of their users. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify if applications where gamification is applied do respect users’ privacy. For the accomplishment of this aim, two main steps have been implemented. Since the main principle of gamification is the existence of game elements, the first step was to identify the set of game elements recorded in the literature that are commonly applied in various applications. Afterwards, an examination of the relationship between these elements and privacy requirements was implemented in order to identify which elements conflict with the privacy requirements leading to potential privacy violations and which elements do not. Α conceptual model according to the results of this examination was designed, which presents how elements conflict with requirements. Based on the results, there are indeed game elements which can lead to privacy violations. The results of this work provide valuable guidance to software developers, especially during the design stages of gamified applications since it helps them to consider the protection of users’ privacy in parallel from the early stages of the application development onwards.

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“…"Acceptance Testing of Mobile Applications: Automated Emotion Tracking for Large User Groups," by Simon Scherr, Frank Elberzhager, and Konstatin Holl, describes an approach for using emotion to support mobile-app acceptance testing. 6 Their tool translates a user's facial expression into an emoji and provides the emoji to the app developer. This approach lets developers consider real users and real scenarios rather than more-contrived laboratory settings.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender, Sentiment and Emotions, and Safety-Critical Systems

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THIS ISSUE'S ARTICLE reports from the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 18) and the 17th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR 18). The ICSE papers focus on sociotechnical issues related to gender and sentiment or emotion. The ICSR paper focuses on safety-critical systems. Feedback or suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices described in the article, please send Jeffrey Carver and the paper authors a note about your experiences.

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Acceptance testing of mobile applications

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Gamekins: Gamifying Software Testing in Jenkins

Gamekins: Gamifying Software Testing in Jenkins

Gamification vs. Privacy: Identifying and Analysing the Major Concerns

Gender, Sentiment and Emotions, and Safety-Critical Systems

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