A Contribution to the E-Framework: a Specification of a Programming Exercise Evaluation Service

This work is a contribution to the e-Framework, arguably the mostprominent e-learning framework today, and consists of the definition ofa service for the automatic evaluation of programming exercises. Thisevaluation domain differs from trivial evaluations modelled bylanguages such as the IMS Question & Test Interoperability (QTI)specification. Complex evaluation domains justify the development ofspecialized evaluators that participate in several business processes.These business processes can combine other type of systems such asProgramming Contest Management Systems, Learning ManagementSystems, Integrated Development Environments and Learning ObjectRepositories where programming exercises are stored as LearningObjects. This contribution describes the implementation approachesused, more precisely, behaviours & requests, use & interactions,applicable standards, interface definition and usage scenarios