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Although software testing is paramount for a safe society, students perceive it as a not attractive chore. The VU-BugZoo project at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam is an attempt to remedy the situation by engaging students in exciting bug-hunting games. ...

Exploratory testing, known for its flexibility and ability to uncover unexpected issues, often faces challenges in maintaining systematic coverage and producing reproducible results. To address these challenges, we investigate whether gamification of ...

Web applications have become fundamental to our lives, thus testing methods ensuring their quality are essential. Usually, Web test automation frameworks and tools use locators to interact with the GUI, serving as hooks to the widgets within Web pages. ...

Gamification aims to enhance motivation for a variety of routine tasks by incorporating game elements, such as scoring. In educational settings, students are often the players, and gamification can create a more engaging learning environment that ...

Software testing education is becoming increasingly important both in academia and industry. Despite efforts to improve teaching approaches at the university level, many challenges persist for better preparing students for their future careers. In this ...

The presence of test smells related to low-quality test cases is a known factor contributing to problems in maintaining both test suites and production code. The need to avoid and fix test smells is becoming more and more popular in the scientific ...

In the evolving landscape of mobile applications, effective and efficient testing methods are crucial for ensuring high-quality user experiences. This paper introduces a novel end-to-end mobile testing technique designed to enhance exploratory testing by ...