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Citation Count: Olgun, Serhan...et al., "A Systematic Investigation into the Use of Game Elements in the Context of Software Business Landscapes: A Systematic Literature Review", Software Process Improvement And Capability Determination, Spıce 2017, Vol. 770, pp. 384-398, (2017).
A Systematic Investigation into the Use of Game Elements in the Context of Software Business Landscapes: A Systematic Literature Review
(Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2017) Olgun, Serhan; Yılmaz, Murat; Clarke, Paul M.; O'Connor, Rory V.
The software development process is a set of socio-technical activities to produce software artifacts in which humans play a crucial role. Since it is a people centric activity, factors such as user motivation, engagement, communication and collaboration might constrain these activities. Therefore, software business organizations stand to benefit from adopting different tools and methods in order to overcome these obstacles and to improve their software business processes. Research has been made to increase software quality and enhance the software development process. Alongside these studies, innovative techniques and concepts are beneficial. As a solution, the notion of gamification (i.e. employing game elements in non-gaming contexts) has been introduced to enhance the software development process and overcome the challenges mostly related to human factors. However, the applicability of game elements in the context of software business landscapes is still a controversial issue and not totally proven as of yet. Numerous studies have been conducted to examine the benefits of gamification and how game elements affect the software development process. Thus, in this paper, a systematic literature review was conducted in order to investigate the application of game elements both in research and industrial levels of software development and as well as in software business landscapes.
Citation Count: Olgun, Serhan (2018). A systematic review of gamification in the context of software development landscapes / Yazılım geliştirme mecralarında oyunlaştırma kavramının kullanımına yönelik bir sistematik gözden geçirme çalışması. Yayımlanmış yüksek lisans tezi. Ankara: Çankaya Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü.
A systematic review of gamification in the context of software development landscapes
(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2018) Olgun, Serhan
The software development process is a complex activity that has interrelating steps to produce software products. Human related social factors such as user motivation, engagement, communication and collaboration issues affect the activities performed by software development organizations. In fact, software engineering researchers seek better ways to overcome the human related issues so as to improve the quality in software development. Consequently, research has been conducted to introduce new methodologies, techniques and concepts. As such, gamification has been introduced as a novel technique to enhance the software development process and ultimately resolve some of the identified obstacles that are related to human factors. However, there is a bias to adopt the gamification into the software development process because there are still insufficient evidences about its positive outcomes. In this study, a systematic literature review was rigorously conducted to investigate the application and to reveal the benefits of gamification in the software development landscapes. This study contributes to the area of software engineering research by proposing a classification approach to categorize gamification studies in software development landscapes. The results of this research suggest that there has been a significant increase in empirical and theoretical studies that were recently published and many positive steps being taken towards better integration of gamification in software development organizations.