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JExercise: a specification-based and test-driven exercise support plugin for Eclipse

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eclipse '06: Proceedings of the 2006 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1188835.1188850

Published: 22 October 2006 Publication History

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Programming exercises are an important part of an introductory course in programming. To improve the focus on encapsulation, requirements-based testing and give better feedback given to the students during their work, we have created an Eclipse-based plugin called JExercise. Based on a model of an exercise, it presents the structure of requirements to the student and allows her to test the code by running accompanying JUnit tests.

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JExercise: a specification-based and test-driven exercise support plugin for Eclipse
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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