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Authors: Prasun Dewan, Andrew Wortas, Ken Liu, Sam George, Bowen Gu, and Hao Wang

Published on: Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing

In this paper, we developed a framework that addresses the limitation for the object-based concurrent assignments and completely automates testing by observing the events sent by the student-implemented observable objects. We developed a new testing-based framework to provide both a grading management and automation system for evaluating the concurrency requirements of assignments implemented in Java. We used the framework in an undergraduate course on object-based and concurrent programming, offered in the summer of 2021. We analyzed the performance of the framework based on students’ scores on the assignment, the log recorded by the framework, and the office hour visits.

The full paper is available at IEEE Xplore.

An illustration video (14 mins) is available here.