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Abstract
Software companies need capabilities to evaluate the user value and the success of their products. This is especially crucial for highly competitive markets, such as the mobile game industry, where thousands of new games are introduced every month. Game companies often run continuous experiments as an integrated part of the overall development process. This paper presents a game company’s journey on experimentation, and describes how the experiments are used at different stages of the development cycle to produce reliable, meaningful data for developers as well as how to balance between different data collection methods. Our study indicates that experiments are important in all stages of the development in different forms. Early stages in the development experiments can be run with proxy users due to lack of real users, whereas later in the development Key Performance Indicator (KPI) metrics play the most important role in experiments. Establishing concrete goals for the experiments, balancing between qualitative and quantitative data collection, experimentation throughout the development process with the guidance of an efficient leadership appears to be the key to success.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEEA 2018) |
Editors | T. Bures, L. Angelis |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Publication date | 29 Aug 2018 |
Pages | 345-352 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-5386-7384-3 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-5386-7383-6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 29 Aug 2018 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in conference proceedings |
Event | Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2018) - Prague, Prague , Czech Republic Duration: 29 Aug 2018 → 31 Aug 2018 Conference number: 44 http://dsd-seaa2018.fit.cvut.cz/seaa/ |
Publication series
Name | EUROMICRO Conference Proceedings |
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Publisher | IEEE |
ISSN (Print) | 1089-6503 |
Fields of Science
- 113 Computer and information sciences
- Continuous experimentation
- experiment-driven software development
- product management
- customer development
- customer involvement
- organisational transition
- agile software development
Activities
- 1 Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2018)
Sezin Yaman (Attendee)
29 Aug 2018 → 31 Aug 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Prizes
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EUROMICRO Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2018) Distinguished Paper Award
Yaman, Sezin (Recipient), Mikkonen, Tommi Johannes (Recipient) & Suomela, Riku (Recipient), 30 Aug 2018
Prize: Prizes and awards