Proposal of Visualization for Test Execution Results of programming with Automated Testing

Abstract

In recent years, automated testing has been used in many software developments. Automated testing has advantages such as the early detection of errors through continuous test execution. However, research has reported that software testing is difficult for novices who have not yet acquired basic programming skills. Previous research has observed that even novice learners can perform coding activities and identify bugs in a function in an environment where automated testing is already prepared, but they could not identify the line that has defects in a function and could not eliminate the defect. This study proposes a learning support tool to help novice learners learn how to identify defects in a function using automated testing in programming exercises. Result of evaluation indicated that the proposed tools can help learn a method for identifying the location of defects.