Gamification in Testing

Title: Spice up your Testing Gamify it out!

Abstract :

"In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun." ~Mary Poppins.

Games have been an integral part of human civilization for many years now. As the saying goes, "Quality is everyone's responsibility"; we want the entire team to foster and contribute to project quality actively. Ensuring effective engagement, collaboration, and driving innovation have always been challenging within Testing Teams. Is Gamification the answer? Probably Yes

Gamification is founded in human psychology and behavioral science fundamentals and rests on three primary factors: motivation, ability level, and triggers. By applying gamification concepts, there is a potential to change how we can do testing in the following ways-

Gamification can help foster interest in learning and help drive interest towards niche testing topics. It would engage testing practitioners to explore advanced testing techniques and tools for their advantage, which they usually would not consider. Also, it would help with crowdsourcing complex testing tasks with a purpose.

In this talk, I will be walking through some gamification strategies and techniques that can use to influence behavior change and how these techniques can facilitate more effective collaboration and employee engagement. I will also be walking through ways on how Gamification in software testing can lead to positive outcomes.

Let change how testing is taught and practiced influencing and inspiring future software engineers to take testing as a profession.

Key Take Away

• Benefits of introducing Gamification into Testing. The motivational triggers involved and the psychology behind Gamification.
• How the tester's mindset can be coached through Gamification.
• Making learning of testing fun with Gamification concepts.
• Tips on Gamification of interviews to hire the right candidate.
• How you can easily set up Gamification into issue tracking tool JIRA with no additional cost.
• Secrets on setting up the proper gamification design framework

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