Gengbin Zhang MSc Dissertation 2015/16

Gamification of Software Testing

Supervised by P.McMinn

Abstract

Gamification  has become a popular concept in non-game scenario. The aim of gamification  is to make traditional serious scenario more friendly and interesting to people. And software testing is a tedious work, although software testing is very important for the world, because software has eventually become the most essential tool in people' work and life. Software is the key for a successful software development.

This project focuses on add gamification  elements on a testing environment in order to improve users' interests and efficiency for their work. JUnit  plus Cobertura  in Eclipse is chosen as the testing environment in the project because of its popularity level.