Extensions to Generic Automated Marking Environment: GAME-2+

This paper describes the Generic Automated Marking Environment (GAME-2+), which is the extension of GAME-2 and provides an analysis of its performance in assessing student programming projects. GAME-2+ has been designed to automatically assess programming exercises written in C, C++, JAVA, Delphi and PHP languages based on a number of factors including meaningful comments, the structure of functions and the detection and correction of compile-time errors. The assessment is marked based on these metrics using heuristic and fuzzy rules. In this research, GAME-2+ has been tested on a number of student programming exercises and assignments. The system has attained encouraging result as compared to a human marker. 1