Drop Project: An automatic assessment tool for programming assignments

Automated assessment tools (AATs) are software systems used in teaching environments to automate the evaluation of computer programs implemented by students. These can be stimulate interest science students programming courses providing quick feedback on their work and highlighting mistakes. Despite abundance such tools, most them developed for a specific course not production-ready. Others lack advanced features that required certain pedagogical goals (e.g. Git integration) and/or flexible enough with having different literacy levels, as first year second students.In this paper we present Drop Project (DP), an automated tool built top Maven build automation software. We have been using DP our activity since 2018, received more than fifty thousand submissions between projects, classroom exercises, tests homework assignments. The tool’s has allowed us raise difficulty level course’s while grading process become efficient consistent teachers. is extensively tested, production-ready tool. software’s code documentation available GitHub under open-source license.