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1. I think that it would be more interesting instead of just testing if a applicant can do a specific task, let them try and fix it if they failed. After all, i
by bobbywilson0 16y ago
1. I think that it would be more interesting instead of just testing if a applicant can do a specific task, let them try and fix it if they failed. After all, it isn't such a problem in real life if someone doesn't get something right.
2. What about having them refactor some messy code?
3. Exercises where they write tests for untested code.
- kranner 16y agoThanks! 1. I am going to add an interactive syntax check feature as a lot of people here have recommended. (As a side-benefit, I can skip asking for an email and present the results immediately after the test). 2. Funny enough, this was my original vision for the project, but according to feedback on a blog article I wrote to test the hypothesis, people preferred to write their own code from scratch rather than fix the nearly-working test problem code. Please see: - http://blog.codeboff.in/2010/07/03/will-the-real-programmers-please-stand-up-automated-edition/ http://blog.codeboff.in/2010/07/03/will-the-real-programmers... - http://blog.codeboff.in/2010/07/19/bug-fixing-test-problems-are-out/ http://blog.codeboff.in/2010/07/19/bug-fixing-test-problems-... 3. Might not be important enough to take time up in a test. As I understand, everyone hates long tests.