An Approach Towards Automatic Testing of Student Programs Using Token Patterns

aCorresponding author Abstract: Many universities use software systems to assess student programs by means of automatic testing, but most of these systems suffer from the technical limitation of requiring rigidly defined output formats. As such, a program that implements the correct algorithm is often rejected as incorrect due to minor non-conformance of its output. We propose a new approach to assessing the correctness of students ’ program outputs based on token patterns