Test-Driven Education Project

A novel approach to teaching OO programming.

Project	TDE
People:	Marco Torchiano Maurizio Morisio
Status:	Under heavy development

Contents

What is TDE?

An approach to teaching programming.
If based on the Eclipse IDE.
Leverages tests as tools for

Formalizing Specifications

Measure the degree of completion of assignements

Support grading assignments and exams

Inspired by Test Driven Development [1].

Supporting tools

TDE plug-in

Is an Eclipse plug-in

Manages authentication

Present assignments

Allows delivering assignments

Correction tools

Run tests on delivered projects

Collect statistics

Minimize errors

The tools are currently being tested and developed, they will be released as soon as they reach an acceptable maturity level.

Process

Lab Process

Before starting, the student in the lab logs into the PC and starts Eclipse with the TDE plugin.

The user authenticates herself with the Eclipse TDE plug-in, that sends the information to the back-end server
The server (upon successfull authentication) sends back the authorization and the current lab assignment
The student develops the program required by the assignment
He delivers the project that fullfills the assignment
The project is graded
An evaluation of the project is sent back to the student via email.

The TDE process in the Lab

Exam process

The exam process has been described in [2] with some measurement taken.

References

Kent Beck. "Test-Driven Development", Addison-Wesley, 2002.
ISBN: 0321146530
Maurizio Morisio, Marco Torchiano, Giovanni Argentieri. "Assessing Quantitatively a Programming Course" In Proc. IEEE 10th International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2004), Chicago (USA), September 14-16, 2004.

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