A gamified tool for motivating developers to remove warnings of bug pattern tools

Satoshi Arai; Kazunori Sakamoto; Hironori Washizaki; Yoshiaki Fukazawa

doi:10.1109/IWESEP.2014.17

A gamified tool for motivating developers to remove warnings of bug pattern tools

Satoshi Arai, Kazunori Sakamoto, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa

School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	37-42
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479966660
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IWESEP.2014.17
Publication status	Published - 2014 Dec 4
Event	2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014 - Osaka, Japan Duration: 2014 Nov 12 → 2014 Nov 13

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Name	Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014

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Conference	2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Osaka
Period	14/11/12 → 14/11/13

Keywords

Gamification
bug pattern detection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software

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Arai, S., Sakamoto, K., Washizaki, H., & Fukazawa, Y. (2014). A gamified tool for motivating developers to remove warnings of bug pattern tools. In Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014 (pp. 37-42). Article 6976020 (Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IWESEP.2014.17

A gamified tool for motivating developers to remove warnings of bug pattern tools. / Arai, Satoshi; Sakamoto, Kazunori; Washizaki, Hironori et al.
Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 37-42 6976020 (Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Arai, S, Sakamoto, K, Washizaki, H & Fukazawa, Y 2014, A gamified tool for motivating developers to remove warnings of bug pattern tools. in Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014., 6976020, Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 37-42, 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014, Osaka, Japan, 14/11/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/IWESEP.2014.17

Arai S, Sakamoto K, Washizaki H , Fukazawa Y. A gamified tool for motivating developers to remove warnings of bug pattern tools. In Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2014. p. 37-42. 6976020. (Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014). doi: 10.1109/IWESEP.2014.17

Arai, Satoshi ; Sakamoto, Kazunori ; Washizaki, Hironori et al. / A gamified tool for motivating developers to remove warnings of bug pattern tools. Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. pp. 37-42 (Proceedings - 2014 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2014).

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