Matching User Interfaces to Assess Simple Web Applications (Short Paper)

Authors Marco Primo , José Paulo Leal



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Marco Primo
  • Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal
José Paulo Leal
  • Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal
  • CRACS - INESC, Portugal

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Marco Primo and José Paulo Leal. Matching User Interfaces to Assess Simple Web Applications (Short Paper). In Second International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2021). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 91, pp. 7:1-7:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2021.7

Abstract

This paper presents ongoing research aiming at the automatic assessment of simple web applications, like those used in introductory web technologies courses. The distinctive feature of the proposed approach is a web interface matching procedure. This matching procedure verifies if the web interface being assessed corresponds to that of a reference application; otherwise, provides detailed feedback on the detected differences. Since web interfaces are event-driven, this matching is instrumental to assess the functionality. After mapping web interface elements from two applications, these can be targeted with events and property changes can be compared. This paper details the proposed matching algorithm and the current state of its implementation. It also discusses future work to embed this approach in a web environment for solving web application exercises with automatic assessment.

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  • Information systems → Web interfaces
  • Applied computing → Computer-managed instruction
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  • automatic assessment
  • web interfaces
  • learning environments

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