Processo de desenvolvimento de jogos sérios fundamentado em Test Driven Development (TDD): um estudo de caso na criação de um jogo educacional para o ensino de cadeia produtiva

Abstract

The production chain is a process that traces the journey of a product from its plantation to its arrival at the final consumer. This is one of the contents covered in elementary school and is related to achieving the goals of sustainable development. Thus, like this content, others are covered in serious educational games for children, which help the student's learning because they allow greater engagement and motivation. However, the creation of serious games is hampered by the lack of a process that involves software testing. Therefore, this work created a process for creating a serious game for teaching the production chain that uses test-based development (TDD). The process was structured based on the union of the fundamentals on the design of serious games for children and the respective guidelines considered essential for their construction. It has two stages: Game Design and Test Driven Development, which correspond to the survey of essential aspects for the game, such as its mechanics and scenarios and the tests generated. The process was used to model a game about the production chain aimed at children and the first phase of the game was implemented, aiming for its evaluation. The development tools used were the Java language, with the JUnity testing library, whose execution was intended for the desktop environment. Using this process facilitated the development of tests, as the scenarios had already been identified during the game's design.