The Significance of Positive Verification in Unit Test Assessment
The Significance of Positive Verification in Unit Test Assessment
dc.contributor.author | Buffardi, Kevin | |
dc.contributor.author | Valdivia, Pedro | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-03T01:02:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-01-03T01:02:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-01-08 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study investigates whether computer science students' unit tests can positively verify acceptable implementations. The first phase uses between-subject comparisons to reveal students' tendencies to write tests that yield inaccurate outcomes by either failing acceptable solutions or by passing implementations containing bugs. The second phase uses a novel all-function-pairs technique to compare a student's test performance, independently across multiple functions. The study reveals that students struggle with positive verification and doing so is associated with producing implementations with more bugs. Additionally, students with poor positive verification produce similar number of bugs as those with poor bug identification. | |
dc.format.extent | 10 pages | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.24251/HICSS.2019.918 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9981331-2-6 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/60199 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Measurement and Assessment | |
dc.subject | Software Engineering Education and Training | |
dc.subject | bug identification, positive verification, software engineering education, software testing, unit testing | |
dc.title | The Significance of Positive Verification in Unit Test Assessment | |
dc.type | Conference Paper | |
dc.type.dcmi | Text |
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