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Measuring static quality of student code

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Dennis M. Breuker,

Jacob BrunekreefAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '11: Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 13 - 17

https://doi.org/10.1145/1999747.1999754

Published: 27 June 2011 Publication History

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In this paper we report about a large-scale measurement programme concerning the static quality of student-written Java code. The goal of the programme is two-fold: we investigate what metrics are useful for measuring static quality in an educational setting, and we investigate what conclusions can be drawn from the measurement results.

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Measuring static quality of student code
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