A Proposal for Source Code Assessment Through Static Analysis

This Research to Practice Work in Progress paper presents a proposal for source code assessment through static analysis. The presence of computation is constantly growing in the contemporaneous world, and in that way, the demand for professionals capable to develop and maintain software is also in constant growth. The present work aims to develop a model where teachers can identify potentially weakness on student’s set of skills for programming, and therefore be able to work on solutions for their educational development. Preliminary results show that it is possible to identify prominent skills used to solve a given problem, but also that it is possible to compensate the lack of those skills with others.