Re: Automatiing the generation and marking of assignments

Hi Richard this sounds great! I am not aware of anything like this at 
this time. Please let us know if there are anyways that we can help you.

This may include: promoting the projects on NetBeans.org, writing an 
article, etc.

- Rob

Richard Forster wrote:

>Hello Netbeans Education.
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>We have teams of students writing open source projects.  A proposial
>that looks like being taken up is to write a specialised form driven
>JUnit test harness generator for teachers.  The general concept is that
>you complete a form or series of forms describing a class and how it
>should be tested.  An assignment description based around the class and
>a JUnit test script are then generated. The student takes these away and
>and comes back when the test script runs successfully (or when they run
>into problems).  Alternatively the description and the script could be
>used for examination purposes, with marking based on how many tests are
>passed - self-marking!
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>There is a more detailed description at 
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>http://cit.wta.swin.edu.au/cit/programming/softdevpack/2003TPCourse/softdev2/MajorProjects/projectlist2004_1/zz_Program_Test_Generator.html
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>Is there any interest in this out there, or alternatively does anybody
>know if it has already been done?
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>This would seem to be a good candidate for a Netbeans Module.
>
>Richard Forster
>Swinburne University
>TAFE Division
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>PS to see an example of a complex forms based system students wrote this
>semester see the Protein Crystallography Lab Manager at
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>http://cit3.cdn.swin.edu.au/cgi-bin/newtopic.cgi?title=Try+out+CLIMS+Now&htmlpath=/majorprojects_2003&dir=/ICS/CLIMSOnline
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