What vs. how: Comparing students' testing and coding skills

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 136, Issue , 2013, Pages 97-106

  Fidge, Colin ^a   Hogan, Jim ^a   Lister, Ray ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Learning to program; Object oriented programming; Program specification; Unit testing

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; ACCEPTANCE TESTS; CODES (SYMBOLS); EDUCATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE TESTING; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; COMPUTATIONAL SOLUTIONS; CORRESPONDING SOLUTIONS; LEARNING TO PROGRAM; PROGRAM SPECIFICATION; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCES; UNIT TESTING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84893412886     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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