Context With the rising complexity and scale of software systems, there is an ever-increasing
demand for sophisticated and cost-effective software testing. To meet such a demand, there …

Formative feedback, aimed at helping students to improve their work, is an important factor
in learning. Many tools that offer programming exercises provide automated feedback on …

ABSTRACT A chatbot is a tool that provides online communication platform with an agent
and is usually used by organizations as a customer service agent to promote their products …

Automatic programming assessment has recently become an important method in assisting
lecturers and instructors of programming courses to automatically mark and grade students' …

An OJ (Online Judge) system is a web software for compiling, executing and evaluating
programs submitted by users. OJ systems were originally used in programming …

Many students need assistance in debugging to achieve progress when they learn to write
computer programs. Face‐to‐face interactions with individual students to give feedback on …

En este trabajo se presenta VPL (Virtual Programming Lab), una herramienta software de
código abierto que permite la gestión de prácticas de programación en Moodle. Esta …

Automated program assessment systems have been widely adopted in many universities.
Many of these systems judge the correctness of student programs by comparing their actual …

Given a programming problem, because of a variety of data structures and algorithms that
can be applied and different tradeoffs, such as space-time, to be considered, there may be …

Computer programming is a skill required in many study disciplines, but acquiring the skill
has been known to be difficult for many beginners. With the primary aim to improving the …