A Systematic Mapping Study on Gamified Software Quality

Gamified software is currently very popular, and it is expected that it will be widely adopted over the coming years. The social impact of gamified software will probably be very high, and we therefore believe that the assessment and improvement of gamified software quality may be necessary. The aim of this paper is to present a systematic mapping study (SMS) carried out to discover the current state of the research on software gamification quality, in order to identify gaps that merit rigorous future investigation. This SMS allowed us to select 35 papers found in five digital libraries up to April 2014. This paper summarizes the main issues of the planning and the conducting of the SMS. The main results of the data synthesis are detailed and future work is also outlined.