A TOOL ASSISTING TEACHERS IN AUTOMATING THE ASSESSMENT OF PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENTS

Automating the assessment of programming assignments brings benefits for both students and teachers, since it helps the formers to gain a timely feedback and releases the latter from tedious tasks. The related literature in the domain has usually focused on the assessment process and the tools required for it, proposing libraries and systems that teachers can use in this process. However, few of them have work towards reducing the effort and time teachers require to properly set up new assessment processes. This paper describes our experience with the analysis and design of a new tool to support teachers in visually developing automatic graders of programming assignments, introducing the underlying concepts and technologies and presenting the system architecture.