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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 37-42

  Arai, Satoshi ^a   Sakamoto, Kazunori ^b   Washizaki, Hironori ^a   Fukazawa, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

bug pattern detection; Gamification

Indexed keywords

GAMIFICATION; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STATIC ANALYSIS;

BUG PATTERN DETECTIONS; PATTERN TOOLS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84920534362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWESEP.2014.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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