Design and Implementation of Automatic Marking System for Programming Questions Based on Script Technique

Abstract

Abstract-After analyzing current status of automatic marking methods for programming questions, a novel script-based approach was proposed for designing marking rule. This paper studied the design and implementation of an automatic marking system. The system marks console programs written in a plurality of programming languages. It is composed of two parts, a dynamic-test module and a static-test module based on the script-based approach. Code-marking rules are written in script files. In the dynamic-test module, the programs of the students are compiled, executed and marked with test cases. In the static-test module, the script files are analyzed and executed with both the programs and the outputs of the dynamic-test module. Suggests would be given to improve the quality of those console programs. Experiments showed that the static-test module enhances functions of the marking system.