iTest Learning: um jogo para o apoio ao ensino de testes de software

Abstract

The demand for software with higher quality has motivated the definition of methods and techniques for the development of applications which meet the imposed quality standards. The interest in the testing activity has increased in the past years. In the software development process it is important that methods de adopted, techniques and tools that allow the execution of the testing activity in a systematized manner with a scientific basis, in order to increase productivity and quality, and decrease costs. For this, it is necessary to have good software test planning. However, in IT under graduation courses, test teaching is not given much attention. In that context, aiming to contribute for a better learning in this subject, this paper proposes a game to aid in software test teaching, focused at the planning phase in order to help to stimulate and motivate the student to learn the content taught. For this, a game was elaborated and built to aid software test teaching, an evaluation was done with students enrolled in the Verification and Validation course. The results obtained, show that the game is useful to support software test teaching.