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Bug catcher: a system for software testing competitions

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SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 513 - 518

https://doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445348

Published: 06 March 2013 Publication History

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Bug Catcher is a web-based system for running software testing competitions. While programming competitions are a way to engage students, they require students to have coding experience. On the other hand, software testing competitions may reach high school students that do not have access to a programming course. In this paper, we present the Bug Catcher system and the results from four sessions of a competition that include a total of 94 high school students. Bug Catcher provides students with requirements, buggy code, and input fields to enter test cases. We observed that most students began entering test cases based on requirements, but then many took an interest in the code as time went on. Our results show that 90% of students would recommend this activity in the future and 72% of students report that the activity increased their interest in Computer Science. Students also provided feedback on the system from the perspective of students without background in Computer Science, allowing us to create and modify features for future use.

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SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2013

818 pages

ISBN:9781450318686

DOI:10.1145/2445196

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Tracy Camp
Colorado School of Mines
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Paul Tymann
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Haverford College
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Georgia Gwinnett College

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3606431.3606435
Coppola RArdito LFulcini TGaraccione GTorchiano MMorisio M(2023)A Framework for the Gamification of GUI TestingSoftware Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts10.1007/978-3-031-33338-5_10(215-242)Online publication date: 6-May-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33338-5_10
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