Using fault injection for programming task generation

Abstract

In the programming exercise, it is needed to give programming tasks depending on student’s knowledge level of programming for more educational effect. However, it is almost impossible to prepare different programming tasks for every student in the big class. This paper presents an idea and a process to introduce fault injection, which has been used for software test, to produce variants of programming tasks depending on student’s knowledge level. The system contaminates student’s codes with faults intentionally, forces the student to remove them, and examines student’s knowledge level. It is confirmed that the prototype implementation of this system works as expected.