Support for management of programming assignments - Automated grading

Abstract

In the paper we deal with question, how the practical skills in programming of complex - possibly distributed - systems can be achieved in an effective way. Based on our previous experience with the highly specialized system ShareMe, the generic system GLab is introduced. It offers learning environment that provides not only the description of the laboratory tasks to be implemented in Java, but also covers electronic submission, automatic grading and online access to grading and test results of any Java-based application. In distinction to ShareMe it is an open learning environment that could be used potentially for any software project implemented in Java. We focus on the subsystem called GLabTest that support automated grading and peer-to-peer system for sharing files ShareMe is used for its validation.