Classifiqui : um jogo sério para o ensino de requisitos de software

Abstract

With the advent of technologies and Software Engineering (SE), the demand for software products in the modern world we live in has grown. One of the main areas of Software Engineering is Requirements Engineering (RE), as it meets customers’ needs to use the software product. Most of the development time is spent in this area, as the requirements require time to be built and validated. Thus, any problems at this stage will result in problems for the rest of the project. One of the RE’s activities is the Requirements Analysis, where these are classified into several types, such as Functional Requirements, Business Rules, among others. Errors in this classification can cause severe problems because the developers will create specifications from this classification. Thus, there is a need to support the teaching of this classification. One of the approaches used positively for teaching different areas of knowledge is the use of serious games. In this context, this work proposes a serious game to help explain the classification of software requirements. A digital game called CLASSIFIQUI was developed using technologies such as React Native and Firebase. An evaluation was carried out with the students to collect data on the proposed game. The evaluation was carried out with students from the Federal University of Ceará - Campus Quixadá of the Software Engineering and Information Systems courses. The results obtained indicate that the CLASSIFIQUI game can be useful for the practical teaching of requirements classification.