Achievement unlocked: a case study on gamifying DevOps practices in industry

Patrick, Ayoup,; Costa, Diego Elias; Shihab, Emad

doi:10.1145/3540250.3558948

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“…Furthermore, a bad implementation can lead to unintended behaviour that focuses on archiving the goal of the game feature instead of adopting meaningful practices. This can also lead to unfair competition environments and demotivate other competitors [9]. Other considerations focus on the excessive pressure on users, creating an unhealthy environment [10].…”

Section: B Gamification Fundamentalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These elements provide recognition of achievements to satisfy intrinsic motivational needs for competence and acknowledgement. Through this, repetitive and complex tasks can be made more engaging [9].…”

Section: A Individual Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gamification, supported by the theory of Emotion Perspective, can ease this resistance by creating a positive emotional association with change. Thereby transforming the perception of change from a threat to an opportunity for growth and achievement [9].…”

Section: A Individual Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Leveraging Gamification for Improved Collaboration in DevOps

Mueller

2024

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This paper investigates the potential of integrating gamification into DevOps practices to overcome common challenges such as lack of motivation, engagement, and collaboration within software development and operations teams. By applying game-design elements in non-game contexts, gamification promises to enhance the DevOps workflow, making it more interactive and rewarding. The research explores motivational theories and collaborative frameworks through a theoretical lens, offering insights into designing gamification strategies that align with DevOps objectives. While highlighting the benefits, the paper also discusses the ethical considerations and potential pitfalls of gamification in professional settings. Future directions emphasise the need for adaptable gamification strategies and the exploration of emerging technologies. This study aims to inspire organisations to adopt gamification to boost productivity, learning, and team dynamics in DevOps environments.

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Section: B Gamification Fundamentalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Individual Challengesmentioning

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Leveraging Gamification for Improved Collaboration in DevOps

Mueller

2024

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“…Gamekins supports a total of nine different types of quests 3 . Quests are created by checking the prerequisites of potential quests, such as ensuring that a sufficient number of required challenges can be generated.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…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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