Software Testing as Medium for Peer Feedback

Leon McGregor; Manuel Maarek

doi:10.1145/3416465.3416474

Software Testing as Medium for Peer Feedback

Leon McGregor, Manuel Maarek

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Abstract

Peer feedback has been shown to benefit students’ learning as it develops their critical thinking and provides more immediate feedback. It relies on the analysis by students of their peers’ work following structured criteria. We propose to apply the same principle to programming courses but in doing so by using techniques of software evaluation: software testing. Students run tests on their peers’ code and engage in peer feedback discussions on the results of the test runs. In this paper we present a testing-based code peer feedback learning activity, we describe its technical framework and integration with GitLab, and we discuss its deployment in an undergraduate course and initial evaluation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UKICER '20: United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	66-72
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9781450388498
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3416465.3416474
Publication status	Published - 3 Sept 2020
Event	United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference 2020 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 3 Sept 2020 → 4 Sept 2020 https://www.ukicer.com/

Conference

Conference	United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference 2020
Abbreviated title	UKICER 2020
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	3/09/20 → 4/09/20
Internet address	https://www.ukicer.com/

Keywords

code review education
peer feedback
programming education
software testing
testing education

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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