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Gamificaiton and Testing

Gamification is a new trend in design techniques which enables user to fill forms and to use applications in more interactive and entertaining way. It aims to increase  user engagement, Return on Investment (ROI), data quality, timeliness, and learning as it is defined by Mario Herger . If we think that in the internet/computer age, the majority of the people play games in generally in their early ages so we can say that the playing game get people familiarity and tendency to use effectively something created by/with belonging the rules of game (or game mechanics). Game mechanics are the rules which return applications like a game. In general, every game has a level and the end of level you may have prize and there is a turn to play again or pass to next level; every level you may have combination of decision and risk . The complete rules can be listed as: Turns, Action points, Auction or bidding, Cards, Capture/Eliminate, Catch-up, Dice, Movement, Resource management, Risk