The Employment of Testing DOJO as a Collaborative Learning Methodology for Teaching Failure Analysis: An Experience Report

Training IT professionals in a new function are a big challenge, primarily when its context and function are particular, requiring specific qualifications. This paper describes an experience of training new Quality Assurance (QA) professionals using the Testing DOJO collaborative learning technique in the mobile software industry context. We evaluate the influence of Testing DOJO related to motivation, collaboration, and learning perception in QA failure analysis, and to achieve this objective based on three steps: a basic literature review, QA activity definition, and employee perception evaluation. The results demonstrated that Testing DOJO positively contributed to test developers' motivation, collaboration, and learning perception, enabling improvements in interaction, knowledge exchange, and collaboration among participants. The use could be an exciting alternative for training new QA failure analysis team members.