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Extending a marking tool with simple support for testing

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Oto is a customizable and extensible marking tool which aims at providing timely feedback to students. Based on simple test cases description formats, Oto also includes operations that help students easily test-even "mark"-their own programs.

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    cover image ACM Conferences
    ITiCSE '07: Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
    June 2007
    386 pages
    ISBN:9781595936103
    DOI:10.1145/1268784
    • cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
      ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 39, Issue 3
      Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE'07)
      September 2007
      366 pages
      ISSN:0097-8418
      DOI:10.1145/1269900
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    1. automated marking
    2. educational software
    3. testing

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