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Authors: Chung Man Tang ; Yuen Tak Yu and Chung Keung Poon

Affiliation: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Keyword(s): Automated Assessment Tool, Pattern-oriented Software Testing, Program Assessment Requirements, Program Validation, Testing of Student Programs, Token Pattern.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Assessment Methods in Blended Learning Environments ; Assessment Software Tools ; Computer-Aided Assessment ; Computer-Supported Education ; Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment

Abstract: Automated systems and tools for assessing student programs are now commonly used for enhancing the teaching and learning of computer programming. However, many such systems employ rudimentary techniques in comparing program outputs when testing student programs for determining their correctness. These comparison techniques are typically inflexible and disallow even slight deviations of program output which a human assessor would normally tolerate. This may give rise to student frustrations and other undesirable pedagogical issues that can undermine the benefits of using these assessment tools. This paper presents an experimental prototype we have developed that adopts a token-pattern-based approach to accommodate more tolerant output comparisons in testing student programs, followed by a preliminary validation of the prototype by showing how it can be configured to handle the assessment of variants of program outputs.

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Paper citation in several formats:
Man Tang, C.; Tak Yu, Y. and Keung Poon, C. (2010). AN EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE FOR AUTOMATICALLY TESTING STUDENT PROGRAMS USING TOKEN PATTERNS. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU; ISBN 978-989-674-024-5; ISSN 2184-5026, SciTePress, pages 144-149. DOI: 10.5220/0002800301440149

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JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU
TI - AN EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE FOR AUTOMATICALLY TESTING STUDENT PROGRAMS USING TOKEN PATTERNS
SN - 978-989-674-024-5
IS - 2184-5026
AU - Man Tang, C.
AU - Tak Yu, Y.
AU - Keung Poon, C.
PY - 2010
SP - 144
EP - 149
DO - 10.5220/0002800301440149
PB - SciTePress