Maintes - um jogo educacional para apoiar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem sobre manutenção de software

Abstract

There are alternatives to improve teaching-learning process in various fields of study. Although these alternatives are important advancement, Software Engineering still presents deficit in number of available options to assist students who want to acquire knowledge about this area. This work presents MaintES (Maintenance Educational Software), 3D educational software that seeks to involve students a challenger and interactive environment related to Software Maintenance. This software is provided by the Web platform and the student needs only a computer with Internet access to play. To evaluate its usefulness in contributing in the teaching-learning process, we invited students, teachers, and researchers to assess MaintES. After they play MaintES, they answered a questionnaire in which questions had to know playfulness, user feeling, and content on software maintenance. With the analysis of the responses, we found that MaintES can contribute significantly to better learning of the contents of Software Maintenance.