Avaliação de atividades de teste por usuários finais no contexto do projeto scalable game design Brasil

Abstract

The development of applications by people who do not have specific knowledge about software engineering activities, also known as end-users, has become increasingly common today, and making this experience enjoyable and satisfying is one of End Users Software Engineering (EUSE) main goals. This paper presents a case study carried out in the context of the project Scalable Game Design Brazil (SGD-Br), which aims to support the learning of computational thinking by children and adolescents, through the creation of games. The research brings an approach to the activities carried out in a specific case with one of the classes participating in the project, focusing on the test activity, which was not part of the project script, but was seen as necessary by the class teacher, who is also an end user. To complete this goal, we conducted tests and inspections of games developed by the students, as well as an analysis of students’ test results. On this, we were able to verify errors and achievements obtained by the end users, as well as we can see the importance of covering other phases of the EUSE can positively impact the quality of the final product developed by this type of user