Towards recognizing and rewarding efficient developer work patterns

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.

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