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Domain TILEs: Test Informed Learning with Examples from the Testing Domain

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Test Informed Learning with Examples (TILE) helps educators to add testing to their programming courses early, easily and in a subtle way. Currently, TILE describes how to add informed examples of testing to test runs, test cases, and messages. In this paper, we extend TILE by incorporating information from the testing domain itself into the examples. Our non-conclusive results from a survey with 300 participants indicate that using TILE, results in students creating more tests that cover more parts of the code.

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Acknowledgements

The work leading to this paper has received funding from the EU Erasmus+ projects European innovation alliance for testing education (101055874-ENACTEST-ERASMUS-EDU-2021-PI-ALL-INNO) and Quality-focused Programming Education (2020-1-NL01-KA203-064626).

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  1. Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Niels Doorn, Tanja Vos & Erik Barendsen

  2. Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Tanja Vos & Beatriz Marín

  3. Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany

    Christoph Bockisch & Steffen Dick

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  2. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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Doorn, N., Vos, T., Marín, B., Bockisch, C., Dick, S., Barendsen, E. (2023). Domain TILEs: Test Informed Learning with Examples from the Testing Domain. In: Nurcan, S., Opdahl, A.L., Mouratidis, H., Tsohou, A. (eds) Research Challenges in Information Science: Information Science and the Connected World. RCIS 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 476. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33080-3_31

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