Data for Deriving and Evaluating a Detailed Taxonomy of Game Bugs
Creators: name: Butt, Nigar Azhar
name: Sherin, Salman
name: Jilani, Atif Aftab
name: Khan, Muhammad Uzair
name: Iqbal, Muhammad Zohaib
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Game bugs, Game testing, Fault Taxonomy, MLR, Postmortem analysis

description: This is a dataset for a multivocal literature review for Deriving and Evaluating a Detailed Taxonomy of Game Bugs including sources till 04/01/2023. The present repository includes the following:



Anonymized Survey Responses for game bug taxonomy.csv: The complete dataset of 168 anonymized survey responses

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - Statistics.csv: Illustrates the process of filtering via the depiction of the number of sources accepted at each step

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step1-all- relevant papers.csv: Contains a list of all relevant academic sources w.r.t title

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - title rejected paper examples.csv: Contains list of rejected academic sources w.r.t title

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - Step2-non peer reviewed.csv: Contains list of all relevent non-peer-reviewed academic sources w.r.t title and abstract reading

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - Step2-only peer reviewed.csv: Contains list of all relevent peer-reviewed academic sources w.r.t title and abstract reading

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step3-full text- peer-reviewed-relevant papers.csv: Contains list of all relevent peer-reviewed academic sources w.r.t full text reading

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step3-full text- game balance (accepted).csv: Contains list of relevent peer-reviewed academic sources about gaming balance w.r.t full text reading

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step3-full text- non-peer-reviewed-relevant papers.csv: Contains list of all relevent non-peer-reviewed academic sources w.r.t full text reading

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step3-full text- rejected.csv: Contains list of rejected academic sources w.r.t full text reading

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step4-snowballing.csv: Contains list of all relevent academic sources including the ones discovered by snowballing

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step5-Quality assessment-academic literature.csv: Contains the detailed analysis of quality assessment

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step6-Academic Literature-Taxonomy.csv: Contains the linkage between academic sources and relevant game bug category from taxonomy.

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - bug capturing techniques.csv: Contains the detailed categorization of selected studies based on testing techniques versus bug category.

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - all-postmortems.csv: Contains a list of 200 postmortems from the Gamasutra website

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - relevant-postmortems.csv: Contains the selected 62 relevant postmortems

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - taxonomy postmortems-dataset-final.csv: Contains the selected 62 relevant postmortems with detailed quotes and categories of game bug taxonomy

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - blogs-all sources.csv: Contains a list of initial sources of blogs

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - relevant Web Sources.csv: Contains the selected relevant web sources

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - rejected sources with reasons.csv: Contains a list of rejected sources with reasons

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - video-all sources.csv: Contains a list of initial sources of videos

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - relevant video sources.csv: Contains the selected relevant video sources

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - conferennces on GD.csv: Contains list of game development conferences

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - taxonomy descriptions.csv: Contains all bug categories and subcategories with a concise description for each category as well as identify the extent to which we have updated the existing taxonomy.

Appendix for Deriving and Evaluating a Detailed Taxonomy of Game Bugs.pdf: Contains tabular and visual representations of data that could not be included in the paper due to space constraints (updated)

Survey of Video Game Bugs.pdf, The pdf of the Google form used in the survey

Video examples of Taxonomy of game bugs.mp4, We have provided a video resource to better help understand tricky game bug categories with visual examples.

Video Game Taxonomy Survey Response Summary.png: Contains Google form visual summary of the anonymized survey


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Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - Step1-query-results-filtering.csv: Contains all academic sources found by the search query for all selected databases and corresponding decisions and reasons.

Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - Step4-snowballing-process.csv: Contains the snowballing process with all title and corresponding decisions


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Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - statistics.csv: Illustrates the process of filtering via the depiction of the number of sources accepted at each step