Publications on Autograding Student Assignments

Diagnosability, Adequacy & Size: How Test Suites Impact Autograding
BS Clegg, P McMinn, and G Fraser
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2022
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[DOI]
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@inproceedings{Clegg2022,
  author    = "Clegg, Benjamin S. and McMinn, Phil and Fraser, Gordon",
  title     = "Diagnosability, Adequacy \& Size: How Test Suites Impact Autograding",
  booktitle = "Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)",
  year      = "2022",
  pages     = "861--870",
  doi       = "10.24251/hicss.2022.107"
}

Gradeer: An Open-Source Modular Hybrid Grader
BS Clegg, M Villa-Uriol, P McMinn, and G Fraser
International Conference on Software Engineering — Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-JSEET), 2021
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[DOI]
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@inproceedings{Clegg2021,
  author    = "Clegg, Benjamin S. and Villa-Uriol, Maria-Cruz and McMinn, Phil and Fraser, Gordon",
  title     = "{Gradeer}: An Open-Source Modular Hybrid Grader",
  booktitle = "International Conference on Software Engineering --- Joint Track on Software
               Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-JSEET)",
  year      = "2021",
  pages     = "60--65",
  publisher = "IEEE",
  doi       = "10.1109/ICSE-SEET52601.2021.00015"
}

An Empirical Study to Determine if Mutants Can Effectively Simulate Students' Programming Mistakes to Increase Tutors' Confidence in Autograding
BS Clegg, P McMinn, and G Fraser
ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), 2021
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[DOI]
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@inproceedings{Clegg2021a,
  author    = "Clegg, Benjamin S. and McMinn, Phil and Fraser, Gordon",
  title     = "An Empirical Study to Determine if Mutants Can Effectively Simulate Students'
               Programming Mistakes to Increase Tutors' Confidence in Autograding",
  booktitle = "ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)",
  year      = "2021",
  pages     = "1055--1061",
  publisher = "ACM",
  doi       = "10.1145/3408877.3432411"
}

The Influence of Test Suite Properties on Automated Grading of Programming Exercises
BS Clegg, P McMinn, and G Fraser
International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2020
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[DOI]
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@inproceedings{Clegg2020,
  author    = "Clegg, Benjamin S. and McMinn, Phil and Fraser, Gordon",
  title     = "The Influence of Test Suite Properties on Automated Grading of Programming Exercises",
  booktitle = "International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE\&T)",
  year      = "2020",
  pages     = "1--10",
  publisher = "IEEE",
  doi       = "10.1109/CSEET49119.2020.9206231"
}

Simulating Student Mistakes to Evaluate the Fairness of Automated Grading
BS Clegg, S North, P McMinn, and G Fraser
International Conference on Software Engineering — Software Engineering Education and Training track (ICSE-SEET), 2019
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[DOI]
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@inproceedings{Clegg2019,
  author    = "Clegg, Benjamin S. and North, Siobh{\'a}n and McMinn, Phil and Fraser, Gordon",
  title     = "Simulating Student Mistakes to Evaluate the Fairness of Automated Grading",
  booktitle = "International Conference on Software Engineering --- Software Engineering Education
               and Training track (ICSE-SEET)",
  year      = "2019",
  pages     = "121--125",
  publisher = "IEEE",
  doi       = "10.1109/ICSE-SEET.2019.00021"
}