Toward Gamification to Software Engineering and Contribution of Software Engineer

Abstract

We wish to change developers' behaviors to increase software engineering efficiency and the previous research shows that gamification method can change user's behaviors. Gamification has become a popular topic in many areas including software engineering. We sum up some pairs of gamification features which can influence people's specific behavior like engagement. Thus, we build a general gamification processing model for software development life cycle. Also, we built a metrics model of software engineers' contribution based on gamification processing model for gamifying software engineer's contribution. The next step, we will gamify the contribution of software engineers to change engineer's behaviors for converting junior software engineers to senior software engineers.