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Track Talk W14

Spice up your Testing, and Gamify it Out!

Geosley Andrades

15:15-16:00 CEST Wednesday 14th June

“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 actively foster and contribute to project quality. Ensuring effective engagement, collaboration, and innovation has always been challenging within testing teams. Is gamification the answer? Yes, probably.

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:

1. Gamification can help foster interest in learning, and help drive interest towards niche testing topics.

2. It would engage testing practitioners to explore advanced testing techniques and tools for their advantage, which they usually wouldn’t consider.

3. It would also help with crowdsourcing complex testing tasks with a purpose.

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

Let’s change how testing is taught, and practice influencing and inspiring future software engineers to take testing as a profession.

Key Takeaways

1. The benefits of introducing gamification into testing, the motivational triggers involved, and the psychology behind gamification.

2. How the tester’s mindset can be coached through gamification

3. Making learning of testing fun with gamification concepts.

4. Tips on gamification of interviews to hire the right candidate.

5. How you can easily set up gamification into issue tracking tool JIRA with no additional cost.

6. Secrets to setting up the proper gamification design framework.

What you will learn

  1. The benefits of introducing gamification into testing, the motivational triggers involved, and the psychology behind gamification.
  2. How the tester's mindset can be coached through gamification: make learning testing fun with gamification concepts.
  3. Secrets on setting up the proper gamification design framework.

Session Details

  • Introductory
  • 45 Minutes
  • Includes 15mins Q&A
  • Group Dynamics
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Geosley Andrades introduces his talk Spice up your Testing, and Gamify it Out! in this short video.

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Session Speaker

Geosley Andrades

Director Product Evangelist – ACCELQ, India

Geosley is a Product Evangelist and Community Builder at ACCELQ. He is on a mission to unite the testing community and keeps himself busy leading the Q community – A Global Community of Test Automation Enthusiasts. Being passionate about continuous learning, Geosley loves to innovate the method of working, resulting in higher efficiency. He has approximately 15 years of experience in the software testing industry. He’s previously worked in companies such as JP Morgan Chase, BNP Paribas, Cornerstone OnDemand, and Infosys. Being a test automation enthusiast, he also holds a Certified Agile Leader and Certified Scrum Master accreditation from Scrum Alliance. He also possesses a Six Sigma Yellow Belt and ISTQB certification to his credit. The world of cloud computing fascinates him, and he’s an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and Cloud Practitioner. Geosley has been a speaker at various events organized by The Test Tribe, Test Master’s Academy, Agile Testing Alliance, SynapseQA, The Test Chat, Clavent, QA Tech Talks, and more.

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