PABS - a Programming Assignment Feedback System.
Lukas Iffländer, Alexander Dallmann, Philip-Daniel Beck, Marianus Ifland · Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry · 2015
Giving invididual feedback to students in large programming courses is time consuming and in most cases not feasible. In order to provide students with feedback we introduce PABS, a tool for automated feedback generation for programming assignments on the Java virtual machine. PABS is a web application giving students the opportunity to submit an arbitrary number of solutions and receive automatically generated feedback. It has been developed to scale with a growing user base by delegating the feedback generation to separate proccesses, called agents, that communicate asynchronously with the web application. At the University of Wurzburg, PABS is successfully used in many courses that hand out programming assignments.