TY - GEN
T1 - A gamified tool for motivating developers to remove warnings of bug pattern tools
AU - Arai, Satoshi
AU - Sakamoto, Kazunori
AU - Washizaki, Hironori
AU - Fukazawa, Yoshiaki
PY - 2014/12/4
Y1 - 2014/12/4
N2 - Static analysis tools such as bug pattern tools are useful to detect bugs early in software development. However, existing tools sometimes yield so many warnings that developers tend to ignore such warnings. To deal with this problem, we propose a gamified tool for motivating developers to remove such warnings. Our tool employs the gamification technique that calculates points by counting removed warnings with respect to each developer and each team. The points give developers feedback and urge them to compete with each other. We confirmed that developers removed about 150% warnings with our tool in comparison with the case where they did not use our tool through an experiment.
AB - Static analysis tools such as bug pattern tools are useful to detect bugs early in software development. However, existing tools sometimes yield so many warnings that developers tend to ignore such warnings. To deal with this problem, we propose a gamified tool for motivating developers to remove such warnings. Our tool employs the gamification technique that calculates points by counting removed warnings with respect to each developer and each team. The points give developers feedback and urge them to compete with each other. We confirmed that developers removed about 150% warnings with our tool in comparison with the case where they did not use our tool through an experiment.
KW - Gamification
KW - bug pattern detection
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U2 - 10.1109/IWESEP.2014.17
DO - 10.1109/IWESEP.2014.17
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84920534362
T3 - Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014
SP - 37
EP - 42
BT - Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014
Y2 - 12 November 2014 through 13 November 2014
ER -