Teaching software quality assurance by encouraging student contributions to an open source web-based system for the assessment of programming assignments

Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 214-218

  Gotel, Oily ^a   Scharff, Christelle ^a   Wildenberg, Andrew ^b  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated assessment systems; Java; JUnit; Open source; Peer review; Programming; Requirements; Software quality assurance; Unit testing; WeBWorK

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER TESTING; COMPUTERS; CURRICULA; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; FLOW PATTERNS; INFORMATION THEORY; INNOVATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; SOFTWARE TESTING; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS; JAVA; JUNIT; OPEN SOURCE; PEER REVIEW; PROGRAMMING; REQUIREMENTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE; UNIT TESTING; WEBWORK;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 57349197128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1384271.1384329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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