Supporting student-written tests of GUI programs

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 537-541

  Thornton, Matthew ^a   Edwards, Stephen H ^a   Tan, Roy Patrick ^a   Pérez Quiñones, Manuel ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated grading; Junit; Objectdraw; Test driven development; Test first coding; Unit testing; Web CAT

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED GRADING; JUNIT; OBJECTDRAW; UNIT TESTING; WEB-CAT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER TESTING; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SOFTWARE TESTING; STUDENTS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TESTING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); USER INTERFACES;

TEACHING;

EID: 57349155450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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