Towards recognizing and rewarding efficient developer work patterns
Will Snipes, Vinay Augustine, Anil Ramachandran Nair, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill · 2013
Abstract—Software engineering researchers develop great techniques consisting of practices and tools that improve efficiency and quality of software development. Prior work evaluates developers ’ use of techniques such as Test-Driven-Development and refactoring by measuring actions in the development environment. What we still lack is a method to communicate effectively and motivate developers to adopt best practices and tools. This work proposes a game-like system to motivate adoption while continuously measuring developers ’ use of more efficient development techniques. I.