An experimental study on a conversational agent in software testing lessons

IF 2.1 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Informatics in Education Pub Date : 2022-01-21 DOI:10.15388/infedu.2023.01

L. Paschoal, S. Melo, V. Neves, T. Conte, Simone do Rocio Senger de Souza

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Nowadays, few professionals understand the techniques and testing criteria to systematize the software testing activity in the software industry. Towards shedding some light on such problems and promoting software testing, professors in the area have established Massive Open Online Courses as educational initiatives. However, the main limitation is the professor’s lack of supervision of students. A conversation agent called TOB-STT has been defined in trying to avoid the problem. A previous study introduced TOB-STT; however, it did not analyze its efficacy. This article addresses a controlled experiment that analyzed its efficacy and revealed it was not expressive in its current version. Therefore, we conducted an in-depth analysis to find what caused this result and provided a detailed discussion. The findings contribute to the TOB-STT since the experimental results show that improvements need to be made in the conversational agent before we use it in Massive Open Online Courses.

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会话代理在软件测试课程中的实验研究

目前，在软件行业中，很少有专业人士了解将软件测试活动系统化的技术和测试标准。为了揭示这些问题并促进软件测试，该领域的教授已经建立了大规模开放在线课程作为教育计划。然而，主要的限制是教授缺乏对学生的监督。为了避免这个问题，已经定义了一个名为tb - stt的对话代理。先前的研究介绍了TOB-STT;然而，它没有分析其功效。本文介绍了一个对照实验，分析了它的功效，并揭示了它在当前版本中不具有表现力。因此，我们进行了深入的分析，找出导致这一结果的原因，并进行了详细的讨论。实验结果表明，在大规模在线开放课程中使用会话代理之前，需要对会话代理进行改进，因此这些发现有助于TOB-STT。

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Informatics in Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

6.10

自引率

3.70%

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审稿时长

20 weeks

期刊介绍： INFORMATICS IN EDUCATION publishes original articles about theoretical, experimental and methodological studies in the fields of informatics (computer science) education and educational applications of information technology, ranging from primary to tertiary education. Multidisciplinary research studies that enhance our understanding of how theoretical and technological innovations translate into educational practice are most welcome. We are particularly interested in work at boundaries, both the boundaries of informatics and of education. The topics covered by INFORMATICS IN EDUCATION will range across diverse aspects of informatics (computer science) education research including: empirical studies, including composing different approaches to teach various subjects, studying availability of various concepts at a given age, measuring knowledge transfer and skills developed, addressing gender issues, etc. statistical research on big data related to informatics (computer science) activities including e.g. research on assessment, online teaching, competitions, etc. educational engineering focusing mainly on developing high quality original teaching sequences of different informatics (computer science) topics that offer new, successful ways for knowledge transfer and development of computational thinking machine learning of student''s behavior including the use of information technology to observe students in the learning process and discovering clusters of their working design and evaluation of educational tools that apply information technology in novel ways.