Educational data mining and learning analytics promise better understanding of student
behavior and knowledge, as well as new information on the tacit factors that contribute to …

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to the development of large language
models (LLMs), which are able to generate text, images, and source code based on prompts …

A growing set of tasks that once depended critically on human cognition can now be
effectively accomplished by automated systems, either independently or in partnership with …

Unit testing is reported as one of the skills that graduating students lack, yet it is an essential
skill for professional software developers. Understanding the challenges students face …

To ensure the quality of a software system, developers perform an activity known as unit
testing, where they write code (known as test cases) that verifies the individual software units …

As incorporating software testing into programming assignments becomes routine,
educators have begun to assess not only the correctness of students' software, but also the …

While many educators have added software testing practices to their programming
assignments, assessing the effectiveness of student-written tests using statement coverage …

Testing is an important, time-consuming, and often difficult part of the software development
process. It is therefore critical to introduce testing early in the computer science curriculum …

Students often run into trouble when learning and practicing software testing. Recent prior
studies demonstrate that a lightweight testing checklist that contains testing strategies and …

Software testing is an important aspect of the development process, one that has proven to
be a challenge to formally introduce into the typical undergraduate CS curriculum …