The Design of an Automated C Programming Assessment Using Pseudo-code Comparison Technique

Automated programming assessment is a computer aided approach in checking and grading students programming exercises, without the hassle of doing it manually. This is an attempt to conduct programming exercise assessment using one of the static analysis approaches; a non-structural similarity analysis by using the pseudo-code comparison. The application will generate the pseudo-code for the students’ C programming exercises and the solution models (answer schemes) provided by the programming instructor. At the end of the process, the students’ pseudo-code and the pseudo-code of the solution models will be compared and the similarity percentage will be considered as the mark. This paper will be discussing the details about the design of this application only. Since the development of this application is based on the object oriented approach, the design will be represented using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Each class and the relationship with the other classes will be elaborated.