Test Automation Games
As I mentioned in a prior post: Software Testing is a Game, two dominant manual testing approaches to the software testing game are scripted and exploratory testing. In the test automation space, we...
View ArticleSoftware Testing Training and Gaming
If you spend time at conferences, or hire a well-known testing consultant to provide some training for your company, it’s likely that one or more of them have used game mechanics as teaching tools. In...
View ArticleApplying Gamification to Software Testing
I wrote an article for Better Software magazine this month called “Software Testing is a Game”. ( HTML version or PDF version.) I wrote about using gamification as an approach to analyze and help make...
View ArticleTest Quests – Gamification Applied to Software Test Execution
I decided to analyze a game feature, the “quest“, which is used in popular video games, particularly MMORPGs. Quests have some compelling aspects for structuring testing activitues. Jane McGonigal‘s...
View ArticleExploratory Test Adventures – Using Storytelling Games in Software Testing
I love to see creative work from people in the industry, and Martin Jansson always impresses me with his insatiable desire to learn, to do better and to take risks with ideas to push the craft forward....
View ArticleCreating Great Storytelling to Enhance Software Testing Scenarios
Recently, I wrote about Using Storytelling Games in Software Testing, and pointed you to a paper by Martin Jansson and Greger Nolmark. Now I want to give you some tips on creating great storytelling...
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Interview with Anna Sort: Gamification in Health Care – Part 1
For my first blog interview in my Designing a Better Life series, we will be chatting with Anna Sort. Anna is a professional nurse who is working to bring together smartphone and video-game technology...
View ArticleInterview with Anna Sort: Gamification in Health Care – Part 2
This is Part 2 of my interview with Anna Sort. If you haven’t already, check out Part 1 of the interview. Anna is a professional nurse who is working to bring together smartphone and video-game...
View ArticleDesigning a Gamification Productivity Tool
Gamification and Software Testing I haven’t spoken about this project publicly because we never got to a public release. Software testing tools represent a tiny market, so they are incredibly difficult...
View ArticleGamification Principles for Product Management Revisited
A few of you pointed out that the link to my 2014 article for commercelab is down, so I have uploaded a PDF of it: Gamification principles you should consider in mobile product management As I read...
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