A design-aware test code approach for code writing problem in Java programming learning assistant system. (2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zaw, Khin Khin; Funabiki, Nobuo
• Is Part Of: International journal of space-based and situated computing. Volume 7:Number 3(2017)
• Page Start: 145
• Page End: 154
• Publication Date: 2017
• Subjects: Java programming learning assistant system -- JPLAS -- design-aware test code -- JUnit -- metric plugin -- breadth-first-search -- BFS; Computer networks -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Interactive computer systems -- Periodicals; 004.6
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2044-4893

Abstract

To advance Java programming educations, we have developed the web-based Java programming learning assistant system (JPLAS) that provides the code writing problem . This problem asks a student to write a source code for a given assignment, where the correctness is verified by running the test code on JUnit . In this paper, we propose a design-aware test code approach for the code writing problem. The design-aware test code tests any important method in the model source code that has the advisable design for the assignment. Thus, by writing a code that can pass it, a student is expected to implement the code with the proper classes/methods in the model code . In evaluations of the proposal, all the students could complete highly qualitative codes for five graph algorithms using the design-aware test codes, where the code quality metrics were measured by metrics plugin for Eclipse .