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title: >-
  Witter: A Library for White-Box Testing of Introductory
  Programming Algorithms
message: >-
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type: software
authors:
  - given-names: Afonso
    family-names: B. Caniço
    email: ambco@iscte-iul.pt
    affiliation: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9334-717X'
  - given-names: André
    family-names: L. Santos
    email: andre.santos@iscte-iul.pt
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8247-7413'
    affiliation: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)
repository-code: 'https://github.com/ambco-iscte/witter'
abstract: >-
  Software testing is mostly performed in a black-box
  manner, that is, without incorporating any knowledge of
  the internal workings of programs into the tests. This
  practice usually suffices for enterprises and general
  practitioners, where the focus lies on producing reliable
  results while most algorithmic tasks are provided by
  third-party libraries. However, for computer science
  students and the like, it might not be straightforward to
  discern the underlying causes of an incorrect tester result
  or to understand why certain algorithmic goals are not
  met. We present Witter, a software testing library that
  allows programming educators to define white-box tests for
  Java source code. Our tests analyze the execution of a
  method against a reference solution, to verify that the
  code not only produces correct results but is also in
  accordance with a desired algorithm behavior.
keywords:
  - programming education
  - white-box testing
  - assessment
  - feedback
preferred-citation:
  type: conference-paper
  authors:
  - family-names: "Caniço"
    given-names: "Afonso"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9334-717X"
  - family-names: "Santos"
    given-names: "André"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8247-7413"
  doi: "10.1145/3622780.3623650"
  conference:
    name: "ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on SPLASH-E"
  title: "Witter: A Library for White-Box Testing of Introductory Programming Algorithms"
  publisher: 
    name: "Association for Computing Machinery"
  collection-title: "Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on SPLASH-E"
  start: 69
  end: 74
  month: 10
  year: 2023