The Marmoset project: an automated snapshot, submission, and testing system

ABSTRACT

Marmoset is a framework for storing and testing student submissions to programming assignments. It gives students a limited ability to release test their code using an instructor's private suite of test cases. This encourages them to start early and implement their own test cases. It also provides facilities for instructors to manage the grading process and gives researchers access to fine-grained snapshots of the student development process.

REFERENCES

• 1: David Jackson , Michelle Usher, Grading student programs using ASSYST, Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, p.335-339, February 27-March 01, 1997, San Jose, California, United States
• 2: Andreas Zeller, Making students read and review code, Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSEconference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, p.89-92, July 11-13, 2000, Helsinki, Finland
• 3: Stephen H. Edwards, Rethinking computer science education from a test-first perspective, Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications, October 26-30, 2003, Anaheim, CA, USA [doi>10.1145/949344.949390]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.1 Computer Uses in Education
          Subjects: Computer-assisted instruction (CAI)

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.5 Testing and Debugging

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
          Subjects: Computer science education

General Terms:
Experimentation, Human Factors, Measurement

Keywords:
code snapshots, project submission, testing