Assessment of Quality of Program Based on Static Analysis

Abstract

In today's world of automation, there is a growing trend towards automating even the simplest tasks. One area where this trend has not caught up is in the assignment evaluation tasks area in the education sector. Even today, many programs are manually evaluated in tests and exams. Even popular platforms like HackerRank and HackerEarth fall short in many cases as they perform checking only based on the test-cases irrespective of the quality of the code written. This may lead students to learn improper coding practices. In this paper, we present a tool that not only tests a student's program based on test cases dynamically but also evaluates a program statically based on certain rules given by the teacher, thereby automating the process of evaluation and removing any possible bias and error. The main idea of this paper is to demonstrate the application of static analysis in program evaluation based on rules created by the teacher to encourage higher coding standards