{"id":"https://openalex.org/W7116990786","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3727967.3756829","title":"Puzzle-based learning for developing software testing skills","display_name":"Puzzle-based learning for developing software testing skills","publication_year":2025,"publication_date":"2025-06-17","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W7116990786","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3727967.3756829"},"language":null,"primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/3727967.3756829","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3727967.3756829","pdf_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3727967.3756829?download=true","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2025 29th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering Companion","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3727967.3756829?download=true","any_repository_has_fulltext":null},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5051456069","display_name":"Niels Doorn","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0680-4443"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I7876267","display_name":"Open University of the Netherlands","ror":"https://ror.org/018dfmf50","country_code":"NL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I7876267"]}],"countries":["NL"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Niels Doorn","raw_affiliation_strings":["Open Universiteit, Heerlen, Netherlands and NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Emmen, Netherlands"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0680-4443","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Open Universiteit, Heerlen, Netherlands and NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Emmen, Netherlands","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I7876267"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5075982623","display_name":"Tanja E. J. Vos","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6003-9113"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I60053951","display_name":"Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia","ror":"https://ror.org/01460j859","country_code":"ES","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I60053951"]}],"countries":["ES"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Tanja E. J. Vos","raw_affiliation_strings":["Open Universiteit, Heerlen, Netherlands and Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6003-9113","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Open Universiteit, Heerlen, Netherlands and Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I60053951"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5043484651","display_name":"Beatriz Mar\u00edn","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-0023"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I60053951","display_name":"Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia","ror":"https://ror.org/01460j859","country_code":"ES","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I60053951"]}],"countries":["ES"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Beatriz Mar\u00edn","raw_affiliation_strings":["Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, Valencia, Spain"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-0023","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, Valencia, Spain","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I60053951"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":null,"display_name":"Migchiel van Diggelen","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-2220"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I36523846","display_name":"Stenden University of Applied Sciences","ror":"https://ror.org/026xbkx09","country_code":"NL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I36523846"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4387154156","display_name":"NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences","ror":"https://ror.org/02xgxme97","country_code":null,"type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4387154156"]}],"countries":["NL"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Migchiel van Diggelen","raw_affiliation_strings":["NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, Netherlands"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-2220","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, Netherlands","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I36523846","https://openalex.org/I4387154156"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":4,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5051456069"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I7876267"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.65718895,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"202","last_page":"212"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10743","display_name":"Software Testing and Debugging Techniques","score":0.5813000202178955,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1712","display_name":"Software"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10743","display_name":"Software Testing and Debugging Techniques","score":0.5813000202178955,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1712","display_name":"Software"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10533","display_name":"Teaching and Learning Programming","score":0.1793999969959259,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1706","display_name":"Computer Science Applications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10430","display_name":"Software Engineering Techniques and Practices","score":0.052799999713897705,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mirroring","display_name":"Mirroring","score":0.8680999875068665},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/key","display_name":"Key (lock)","score":0.5302000045776367},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/creativity","display_name":"Creativity","score":0.4869999885559082},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/work","display_name":"Work (physics)","score":0.3898000121116638},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/software","display_name":"Software","score":0.38350000977516174},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/software-testing","display_name":"Software testing","score":0.35409998893737793}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C189645446","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350865","display_name":"Mirroring","level":2,"score":0.8680999875068665},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.5715000033378601},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C26517878","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q228039","display_name":"Key (lock)","level":2,"score":0.5302000045776367},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C11012388","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170658","display_name":"Creativity","level":2,"score":0.4869999885559082},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C56739046","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192060","display_name":"Knowledge management","level":1,"score":0.46790000796318054},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C18762648","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42213","display_name":"Work (physics)","level":2,"score":0.3898000121116638},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777904410","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7397","display_name":"Software","level":2,"score":0.38350000977516174},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2984328558","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188522","display_name":"Software testing","level":3,"score":0.35409998893737793},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C115903868","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80993","display_name":"Software engineering","level":1,"score":0.3384999930858612},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C188598960","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7705805","display_name":"Test strategy","level":3,"score":0.33070001006126404},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777267654","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3519023","display_name":"Test (biology)","level":2,"score":0.31189998984336853},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107457646","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207434","display_name":"Human\u2013computer interaction","level":1,"score":0.2937999963760376},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C45235069","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278425","display_name":"Table (database)","level":2,"score":0.27059999108314514},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C92393732","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1790374","display_name":"Learning theory","level":2,"score":0.2615000009536743}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1145/3727967.3756829","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3727967.3756829","pdf_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3727967.3756829?download=true","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2025 29th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering Companion","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/3727967.3756829","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3727967.3756829","pdf_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3727967.3756829?download=true","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2025 29th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering Companion","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/4","score":0.44072452187538147,"display_name":"Quality Education"}],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W7116990786.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W7116990786.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":5,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W2189363260","https://openalex.org/W2319844893","https://openalex.org/W4205492109","https://openalex.org/W4379054040","https://openalex.org/W4401907738"],"related_works":[],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Software":[0],"testing":[1,30,44],"requires":[2],"critical":[3],"thinking,":[4],"experimentation,":[5],"and":[6,36,41,53,59],"modelling,":[7],"yet":[8],"traditional":[9],"education":[10,50],"often":[11],"lacks":[12],"sufficient":[13],"engagement":[14,52],"to":[15,27,64],"develop":[16],"these":[17,47],"skills":[18],"effectively.":[19],"This":[20],"paper":[21],"introduces":[22],"a":[23,69],"puzzle-based":[24],"learning":[25],"approach":[26],"strengthen":[28],"key":[29],"competencies.":[31],"Each":[32],"exercise":[33],"challenges":[34],"assumptions":[35],"biases":[37],"while":[38],"fostering":[39],"creativity":[40],"mirroring":[42],"real-world":[43],"demands.":[45],"Integrating":[46],"puzzles":[48],"into":[49,68],"enhances":[51],"bridges":[54],"the":[55],"gap":[56],"between":[57],"theory":[58],"practice.":[60],"Future":[61],"work":[62],"aims":[63],"expand":[65],"this":[66],"collection":[67],"comprehensive":[70],"Body":[71],"of":[72],"Knowledge":[73],"(BoK).":[74]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-05-05T08:41:31.759640","created_date":"2025-12-23T00:00:00"}
