Análise das contribuições do BDD no desenvolvimento de um jogo sério

Abstract

Behavior-Driven Development, named by the acronym BDD, allows test scenarios to be written in a phase prior to code definition. The scenario is written in three blocks (given, when, then). There is a scarcity of work in the literature that uses this type of development to create educational or serious games. Therefore, this work carried out an analysis of the application of BDD in the creation of a serious Quiz-type game to evaluate its contributions. The methodological process involved stages of creating the game and applying BDD. The steps covered are: requirements development, scenario definition, game implementation, executable specification, test validation and automation, and behavior-oriented refactoring. As a result, it was found that BDD helped to validate the game's features that were identified in the initial stages of development, providing greater readability of the code, facilitating future updates and maintenance of the game. Furthermore, the process can be reused by people who develop serious games and who want to base their development on testing.