An experimental study on a conversational agent in software testing lessons
Nowadays, few professionals understand the techniques and testing criteria to systematize the software testing activity in the software industry. Towards shedding some light on such problems and promoting software testing, professors in the area have established Massive Open Online Courses as educat...
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Vilnius University
2023-03-01
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| author | Leo Natan PASCHOAL Silvana Morita MELO Vânia de Oliveira NEVES Tayana Uchôa CONTE Simone do Rocio Senger de SOUZA |
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| description | Nowadays, few professionals understand the techniques and testing criteria to systematize the software testing activity in the software industry. Towards shedding some light on such problems and promoting software testing, professors in the area have established Massive Open Online Courses as educational initiatives. However, the main limitation is the professor’s lack of supervision of students. A conversation agent called TOB-STT has been defined in trying to avoid the problem. A previous study introduced TOB-STT; however, it did not analyze its efficacy. This article addresses a controlled experiment that analyzed its efficacy and revealed it was not expressive in its current version. Therefore, we conducted an in-depth analysis to find what caused this result and provided a detailed discussion. The findings contribute to the TOB-STT since the experimental results show that improvements need to be made in the conversational agent before we use it in Massive Open Online Courses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aad95168d9874219a8fdaef3187853a62023-03-15T14:32:26ZengVilnius UniversityInformatics in Education1648-58312335-89712023-03-012219912010.15388/infedu.2023.01An experimental study on a conversational agent in software testing lessonsLeo Natan PASCHOAL0Silvana Morita MELO1Vânia de Oliveira NEVES2Tayana Uchôa CONTE3Simone do Rocio Senger de SOUZA4Universiy of Sao Paulo - São Carlos, BrazilFederal University of Grande Dourados - Dourados, BrazilFluminense Federal University - Niterói, BrazilFederal University of Amazonas - Manaus, BrazilUniversiy of Sao Paulo - São Carlos, BrazilNowadays, few professionals understand the techniques and testing criteria to systematize the software testing activity in the software industry. Towards shedding some light on such problems and promoting software testing, professors in the area have established Massive Open Online Courses as educational initiatives. However, the main limitation is the professor’s lack of supervision of students. A conversation agent called TOB-STT has been defined in trying to avoid the problem. A previous study introduced TOB-STT; however, it did not analyze its efficacy. This article addresses a controlled experiment that analyzed its efficacy and revealed it was not expressive in its current version. Therefore, we conducted an in-depth analysis to find what caused this result and provided a detailed discussion. The findings contribute to the TOB-STT since the experimental results show that improvements need to be made in the conversational agent before we use it in Massive Open Online Courses.https://infedu.vu.lt/doi/10.15388/infedu.2023.01chatbotcomputer science educationsoftware testing |
| spellingShingle | Leo Natan PASCHOAL Silvana Morita MELO Vânia de Oliveira NEVES Tayana Uchôa CONTE Simone do Rocio Senger de SOUZA An experimental study on a conversational agent in software testing lessons Informatics in Education chatbot computer science education software testing |
| title | An experimental study on a conversational agent in software testing lessons |
| title_full | An experimental study on a conversational agent in software testing lessons |
| title_fullStr | An experimental study on a conversational agent in software testing lessons |
| title_full_unstemmed | An experimental study on a conversational agent in software testing lessons |
| title_short | An experimental study on a conversational agent in software testing lessons |
| title_sort | experimental study on a conversational agent in software testing lessons |
| topic | chatbot computer science education software testing |
| url | https://infedu.vu.lt/doi/10.15388/infedu.2023.01 |
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