Resumen de A fully automatic approach to the assessment of programming assignments
The (semi-)automated management of programming assignments promises efficiency in large classes and fairness for the students. This paper presents an approach and the relative supporting environment for automated assessment of programming assignments that was developed for an object-oriented programming course. The user interface of the tool is tightly integrated into the Eclipse development environment, which is used by students in the labs. The assessment and grading are based on automated tests that allow an objective evaluation of the working features delivered by the students. The grading is based on the number of test cases passed, and on the distance, measured in lines of code, between the program developed in the lab and a corrected, fully functional version of it. This twophased approach allows achieving a quantitative evaluation of the defects and of the missing functions.
