ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Wed 17 Apr 2024 11:30 - 11:45 at Eugénio de Andrade - Testing 1 Chair(s): Ajitha Rajan

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.

Wed 17 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
11:00
15m
Talk
A First Look at the Inheritance-Induced Redundant Test Execution
Research Track
Dong Jae Kim Concordia University, Jinqiu Yang Concordia University, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University
11:15
15m
Talk
Hypertesting of Programs: Theoretical Foundation and Automated Test Generation
Research Track
Michele Pasqua University of Verona, Mariano Ceccato University of Verona, Paolo Tonella USI Lugano
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
Gamifying a Software Testing Course with Continuous Integration
Software Engineering Education and Training
Philipp Straubinger University of Passau, Gordon Fraser University of Passau
Pre-print
11:45
15m
Talk
Enhancing Testing at Meta with Rich-State Simulated Populations
Software Engineering in Practice
Kinga Bojarczuk Meta, Mark Harman Meta Platforms, Inc. and UCL, Nadia Alshahwan Meta Platforms, Arianna Blasi Meta Platforms, Inc., Andrea Ciancone Meta, Natalija Gucevska Meta, Michal Krolikowski Meta, Rubmary Rojas Meta, Dragos Martac Meta, Simon Schellaert Meta, Kate Ustiuzhanina Meta, Inna Harper Meta, Yue Jia Meta, Will Lewis Meta
12:00
15m
Talk
The Impact Of Bug Localization Based on Crash Report Mining: A Developers' Perspective
Software Engineering in Practice
Marcos Medeiros Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Uirá Kulesza Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Roberta Coelho , Rodrigo Bonifácio Computer Science Department - University of Brasília, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Eiji Adachi Barbosa Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
Pre-print
12:15
7m
Talk
Stress Testing Control Loops in Cyber-Physical Systems
Journal-first Papers
Claudio Mandrioli University of Luxembourg, Seung Yeob Shin University of Luxembourg, Martina Maggio Saarland University, Germany / Lund University, Sweden, Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
Pre-print