eclipse '03 Proceedings of the 2003 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
JRefleX: towards supporting small student software teams
eclipse '03 Proceedings of the 2003 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
A testing-based framework for programming contests
eclipse '03 Proceedings of the 2003 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
An experimental evaluation of continuous testing during development
ISSTA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
MSR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international workshop on Mining software repositories
IDE Support for test-driven development and automated grading in both Java and C++
eclipse '05 Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA workshop on Eclipse technology eXchange
Experiences using test-driven development with an automated grader
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Impendulo: debugging the programmer
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
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Much research has been done on techniques to teach students how to program. However, it is usually difficult to quantify exactly how students work. Instructors typically only see students' work when they submit their projects or come to office hours. Another common problem in introductory programming courses is that student code is only subjected to rigorous testing once it has been submitted. Both of these problems can be viewed as a lack of feedback between students and instructors.We have built an Eclipse plugin to address this lack of feedback. The plugin has two main functions. First, it captures, to a central CVS repository, the complete state of a student's project every time he or she saves, adds, or removes a file. This produces a fine-grained history of the evolution of each student's project. Second, the plugin allows the student to submit his or her project to a central server. The submit server automatically compiles and performs limited testing of the student's submission, providing feedback on how close the project is to fulfilling the project requirements.Our goal is to provide instructors and researchers with far more detailed information about how students learn and work, and provide feedback to students that will help them focus on achieving the goals of the projects we assign.