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It was a bit of a race: gamification of version control

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GAS '12: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering: Realizing User Engagement with Game Engineering Techniques

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The adoption of software engineering practices cannot always be achieved by education or processes. However, social software has the potential for supporting deliberate behavior change. We present preliminary results of an experiment in which we encouraged computer science students to make more frequent commits to version control by using a social software application. We provided a web-based newsfeed of commits that also displayed a leaderboard. While we have yet to analyze the data, interviews we conducted with the participants allow for first qualitative insights.

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GAS '12: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering: Realizing User Engagement with Game Engineering Techniques

June 2012

52 pages

ISBN:9781467317689

Conference Chairs:
Jonathan Bell
Columbia University
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Kendra Cooper
The University of Texas, Dallas
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Gail Kaiser
Columbia University
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Swapneel Sheth
Columbia University

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