krishermans/guts

Growing towards a unit testing strategy

Guts

GUTS stands for Growing towards a Unit Testing Strategy. With GUTS we try to provide tools for teachers and students to integrate automated testing into courses that involve writing code in a programming language.

General idea

When students work on programming exercises, the exercises are accompanied with automated tests that check the correctness of the solution of the students. The students get immediate feedback about the mistakes they made. Each time the student runs automated tests, the results of that testrun are sent to a central service (Rest API) that collects data.

On a central dashboard the students can check their progress and compare his/her results with the average. Teachers can get more insights into the progress of their students and detect problem area's.

Goals

• Develop components and tools that help teachers to compose automated tests for exercises for the different programming languages.
  • .NET
    • For .NET some client components and tools exist. The code and other information can be found in the DotNetClient folder.
  • Java
    • Todo
  • Other programming languages
    • Todo
• Stimulate students to make more exercises thanks to the automated feeback of automated tests.
• Develop a web portal (backend) that provides insights into the learning process of students with regard to the number and frequency of the exercises that are made.
• Integration of automated tests in all courses that involve writing code in a programming language.

Colleges

This project was set up by university college PXL, but other colleges and universities are welcome to contribute to this project.

The following courses within PXL-IT have exercises that are backed up by automated tests:

• .NET Essentials: https://github.com/PXL-IT-NET/Guts-DotNetEssentials
• .NET Advanced: https://github.com/PXL-IT-NET/Guts-DotNetAdvanced