ICSE 2025
Sat 26 April - Sun 4 May 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Sat 3 May 2025 10:00 - 10:30 at 211 - Session 1 Chair(s): Riccardo Coppola

The testing process is a fundamental part of the software development cycle. One of the most widely used techniques to verify the proper functioning of mobile applications is Exploratory Testing. Exploratory Testing consists of the tester freely exploring the Application Under Test through the Graphical User Interface to detect anomalies and bugs. However, such a testing methodology requires a large amount of time and has proven to be expensive and monotonous. A possible solution to mitigate the repetitiveness of human-performed activities is gamification. In recent years, several efforts have been made towards the introduction of gamification into the testing process. The goal of this paper is to provide a guide showing how to extend an existing open source Exploratory Testing tool by introducing gamification elements, to make the Exploratory Testing process more engaging and improve the testers’ performances. We give an example of a possible implementation of gamification dynamics with a progress bar that shows the tester the current testing progress. We believe that this kind of contribution can be useful and inspiring to all the researchers working in the software verification and validation field.

Sat 3 May

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09:00 - 10:30
Session 1Gamify Gamification in Development + V & V at 211
Chair(s): Riccardo Coppola Politecnico di Torino
09:15
15m
Day opening
Welcome from Gamify Organizers
Gamify Gamification in Development + V & V
Riccardo Coppola Politecnico di Torino
09:30
30m
Talk
Industrial Code Quality Benchmarks: Toward Gamification of Software Maintainability
Gamify Gamification in Development + V & V
Markus Borg CodeScene, Amogha Udayakumar CodeScene, Adam Tornhill Empear AB
10:00
30m
Talk
GAppium: A Framework to Enact Gamification Mechanics in Appium Inspector
Gamify Gamification in Development + V & V
Lorenzo Laudadio Politecnico di Torino, Riccardo Coppola Politecnico di Torino, Marco Torchiano Politecnico di Torino, Tommaso Fulcini Politecnico di Torino