Digital Game to Support the Teaching of the Black Box Test

• Lucio L. Diniz UNIVALI
• Rudimar L. S. Dazzi UNIVALI

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2011.15398

Abstract

Despite its importance in quality assurance, software testing receives little attention in undergraduate curricula, only a few hours being devoted to teaching it. Besides this, there is another factor, which is the difficulty of teaching software testing, either because of the lack of time, or because of the absence of practice, or because of the difficulty of motivating students. To contribute to the resolution of this problem is proposed in this paper the use of game as a strategy for teaching and learning. The results from the quantitative and qualitative evaluations applied to Computer Science students suggest that the game that was developed may be an efficient teaching technique to be used in teaching black-box testing.

Keywords: Digital Game, Test Teaching, Black Box

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