In past assessment reports, the examiners have commented critically on the lack of obvious desk checking in students' answers. <br>Desk checking is a vital step - how else can you prove a program's output is accurate? <br>
I always do desk checking of my own software, even if I'm not being assessed on it ;-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 May 2011 11:07, Matheson, Heath A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Matheson.Heath.A@edumail.vic.gov.au">Matheson.Heath.A@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Heya All,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Is desk checking as a testing technique a thing of the past? Certainly students need to be able to follow pseudocode with sample data for the exam but there
doesn’t seem to be any suggestion of desk checking the test data that they come up with for this sac.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Just wondering what the consensus is.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Heath Matheson</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Mt Beauty</span></p>
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