Test Informed Learning with Examples
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@INPROCEEDINGS{DVMB2023,
author={Doorn, Niels and Vos, Tanja and Marín, Beatriz and Barendsen, Erik},
booktitle={2023 IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST)},
title={Set the right example when teaching programming: Test Informed Learning with Examples (TILE)},
year={2023},
volume={},
number={},
pages={269-280},
doi={10.1109/ICST57152.2023.00033}
}
Variables as operator and operand
Copy and test the following program:
a = int(input("Enter a value for a = "))
a = a + 1
print("The value of the variable a is now ", a);
As can be seen, the same variable can appear both as an operand and as an operator. This is a normal and widely used programming situation, so you should get used to it. Now replace the instruction a = a + 1 by a += 1.
This exercise would say: "copy and execute the following program",
the change to "copy and test the following program" is a very
subtle TILE.