A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS FOR CORRECTNESS AND PERFORMANCE

Amit Kumar Mandal, Chittaranjan Mandal, Chris Reade

2006

Abstract

This paper describes a model and implementation of a system for automatically testing, evaluating, grading and providing critical feedback for the submitted programming assignments. Complete automation of the evaluation process, with proper attention towards monitoring student’s progress and performing a structured level analysis is addressed. The tool provides on-line support to both the evaluators and students with the level of granularity, flexibility and consistency that is difficult or impossible to achieve manually.

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in Harvard Style

Kumar Mandal A., Mandal C. and Reade C. (2006). A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS FOR CORRECTNESS AND PERFORMANCE . In Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-47-4, pages 196-203. DOI: 10.5220/0001251601960203


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist06,
author={Amit Kumar Mandal and Chittaranjan Mandal and Chris Reade},
title={A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS FOR CORRECTNESS AND PERFORMANCE},
booktitle={Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2006},
pages={196-203},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001251601960203},
isbn={978-972-8865-47-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS FOR CORRECTNESS AND PERFORMANCE
SN - 978-972-8865-47-4
AU - Kumar Mandal A.
AU - Mandal C.
AU - Reade C.
PY - 2006
SP - 196
EP - 203
DO - 10.5220/0001251601960203