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An Experience of Use a Serious Game for Teaching Software Process Improvement

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2019)

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Driven the necessity of providing alternative approaches to the traditional pedagogical teaching process, the use of gamification and serious games has become a successful approach to motivate, engage and be effective for the current generation of learners. Considering the advantages of serious games, our work describes the experience of using a serious game to make aware learners about the relevance of measuring to improve the quality of the processes and help learners to make contact with software process improvement field. The empirical evaluation was conducted within the Software Quality course at the University of Cádiz using the MEEGA+ evaluation model to assess the player experience and the perceived learning of learners during the experience. The results provide valuable information to accept the feasibility of the serious game to be integrated as a learning resource within the course and also to contribute new insights to mature and consolidate the field of serious games for software process education.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the learners of the Software Quality course held at the University of Cádiz during 2018-2019 for their participation.

This work was funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (AEI) with ERDF funds under projects BadgePeople (TIN2016-76956-C3-3-R) and the Andalusian Plan for Research, Development and Innovation (grant TIC-195). Moreover, this work has been carried out during a pre-doctoral contract for the training of research personnel, funded by the University of Cádiz through the University Research and Transfer Plan (UCA/REC01VI/2017).

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Calderón, A., Trinidad, M., Ruiz, M., O’Connor, R.V. (2019). An Experience of Use a Serious Game for Teaching Software Process Improvement. In: Walker, A., O'Connor, R., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1060. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28005-5_19

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