VGBT: Data for Deriving and Evaluating a Detailed Taxonomy of Game Bugs

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:

1. Anonymized Survey Responses for game bug taxonomy.csv: The complete dataset of 168 anonymized survey responses
2. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - Statistics.csv: Illustrates the process of filtering via the depiction of the number of sources accepted at each step
3. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step1-all- relevant papers.csv: Contains a list of all relevant academic sources w.r.t title
4. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - title rejected paper examples.csv: Contains list of rejected academic sources w.r.t title
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step3-full text- rejected.csv: Contains list of rejected academic sources w.r.t full text reading
11. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step4-snowballing.csv: Contains list of all relevent academic sources including the ones discovered by snowballing
12. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step5-Quality assessment-academic literature.csv: Contains the detailed analysis of quality assessment
13. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - step6-Academic Literature-Taxonomy.csv: Contains the linkage between academic sources and relevant game bug category from taxonomy.
14. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - bug capturing techniques.csv: Contains the detailed categorization of selected studies based on testing techniques versus bug category.
15. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - all-postmortems.csv: Contains a list of 200 postmortems from the Gamasutra website
16. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - relevant-postmortems.csv: Contains the selected 62 relevant postmortems
17. 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
18. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - blogs-all sources.csv: Contains a list of initial sources of blogs
19. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - relevant Web Sources.csv: Contains the selected relevant web sources
20. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - rejected sources with reasons.csv: Contains a list of rejected sources with reasons
21. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - video-all sources.csv: Contains a list of initial sources of videos
22. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - relevant video sources.csv: Contains the selected relevant video sources
23. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - conferennces on GD.csv: Contains list of game development conferences
24. 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.
25. 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)
26. Survey of Video Game Bugs.pdf, The pdf of the Google form used in the survey
27. 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.
28. Video Game Taxonomy Survey Response Summary.png: Contains Google form visual summary of the anonymized survey
29. 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.
30. Video Game Bug Taxonomy MLR - Step4-snowballing-process.csv: Contains the snowballing process with all title and corresponding decision.

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Files added

1. VGBT validation - O A D case-study- all bug reports.csv: Full dataset of 612 community-submitted bug reports from the 0 A.D. forum (2020–2025), prior to any filtering.
2. VGBT validation - O A D case-study- filtered bug reports.csv: Subset of the bug reports after removing non-English, and duplicate entries, resulting in 594 unique reports.
3. VGBT validation - O A D case-study- annotated bug reports csv: Final dataset of 594 filtered reports manually annotated with VGBT categories, including multi-label mappings and out-of-scope flags.