What Is Web-CAT?
Web-CAT is an advanced automated grading system that can grade students on how well they test their own code. It is highly customizable and extensible, and supports virtually any model of program grading, assessment, and feedback generation. Web-CAT is implemented a web application with a plug-in-style architecture so that it also can serve as a platform for providing additional student support services to help students learn programming or software testing.
Web-CAT is a plug-in-based web application that supports electronic submission and automated grading of programming assignments. The Web-CAT Grader supports traditional models of automated program grading, but also supports grading of assignments where students do their own testing. It helps encourage test-driven development (also called test-first coding), where students write small unit tests for each piece of code they add. Web-CAT allows a student to submit his or her test cases along with the solution, and grades on test validity and test completeness as well as code correctness. The Web-CAT Wiki is a collaborative, user-editable wiki on this server that hosts all of the documentation about Web-CAT, a feature list, links to published papers, FAQs, information about our Sourceforge project, and information about how you can contribute.
