Gamification: a Game Changer for Technical Debt Management? A Design Study

Additional Survey Materials

To allow other researchers to verify our research, we provide here additional materials used for our research, including:

• The survey instrument
• In French: Managers survey and Developers survey
• In English: Managers survey and Developers survey
• The original survey answers in French
• Managers Survey
• Developers Survey
• The anwers translated to English by one of the authors of the paper
• Managers Survey
• Developers Survey
• The codebook resulting of several iterations of coding both surveys
• The coded answers
• Managers Survey
• Developers Survey
• A matrix showing the code occurences, i.e. how many times each code appeared in each participant's answers

Research Ethics

Our research protocol falls under the ethics protocol 14-313 approved by the UVic Human Research Ethics Board. A copy of our certificate of approval is available here