TY - GEN
T1 - Not a silver bullet, but a silver lining
T2 - 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021
AU - Towey, Dave
AU - Pike, Matthew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/4/21
Y1 - 2021/4/21
N2 - COVID-19 has caused heart-break and disruption. The People's Republic of China (PRC) was one of the first severely-impacted countries, but also one of the first to attempt to return to normalcy. Education, including Higher Education - the context of this paper - was disrupted, and the impact of these disruptions continues to be felt. A small consolation, or silver lining, has been the incredible efforts and innovations made by teachers to overcome the COVID-19 challenges. One such innovation is described in this paper: Drawing on the traditions of Metamorphic Exploration and Testing, the authors applied two different approaches to resolving a technical administration problem related to the management of assessments and marks for undergraduate software engineering team projects. This took place at University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), a Sino-foreign Higher Education Institution (HEI) with a history of staff-student collaboration, and education innovation. This paper outlines the experience and the insights learned from it. In addition to being of general interest to education administrators, especially those involved with project and marking administration, the innovative use of Metamorphic Testing ideas to develop the solution will be particularly interesting to computer scientists and software engineers.
AB - COVID-19 has caused heart-break and disruption. The People's Republic of China (PRC) was one of the first severely-impacted countries, but also one of the first to attempt to return to normalcy. Education, including Higher Education - the context of this paper - was disrupted, and the impact of these disruptions continues to be felt. A small consolation, or silver lining, has been the incredible efforts and innovations made by teachers to overcome the COVID-19 challenges. One such innovation is described in this paper: Drawing on the traditions of Metamorphic Exploration and Testing, the authors applied two different approaches to resolving a technical administration problem related to the management of assessments and marks for undergraduate software engineering team projects. This took place at University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), a Sino-foreign Higher Education Institution (HEI) with a history of staff-student collaboration, and education innovation. This paper outlines the experience and the insights learned from it. In addition to being of general interest to education administrators, especially those involved with project and marking administration, the innovative use of Metamorphic Testing ideas to develop the solution will be particularly interesting to computer scientists and software engineers.
KW - Administration
KW - COVID-19
KW - Marking Administration
KW - Metamorphic Exploration (ME)
KW - Metamorphic Relation (MR)
KW - Metamorphic Testing (MT)
KW - Quality Assurance
KW - Software Engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112440583&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454074
DO - 10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454074
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112440583
T3 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
SP - 928
EP - 935
BT - Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021
A2 - Klinger, Thomas
A2 - Kollmitzer, Christian
A2 - Pester, Andreas
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 21 April 2021 through 23 April 2021
ER -
