An Experimental Study on a Conversational Agent in Software Testing Lessons

Autor/inn/en	Paschoal, Leo Natan; Melo, Silvana Morita; Neves, Vânia de Oliveira; Conte, Tayana Uchôa; Souza, Simone do Rocio Senger de
Titel	An Experimental Study on a Conversational Agent in Software Testing Lessons
Quelle	In: Informatics in Education, 22 (2023) 1, S.99-120 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1648-5831
Schlagwörter	Computer Science Education; Computer Software; College Faculty; MOOCs; Teacher Student Relationship; Supervision; Undergraduate Students; Artificial Intelligence; Foreign Countries; Student Attitudes; Course Descriptions; Evaluation Methods; Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Fakultät; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Künstliche Intelligenz; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Kursstrukturplan; Brasilien
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01