A Collaborative Peer Review Process for Grading Coding Assignments

摘要

With software technology becoming one of the most important aspects of computational science, it is imperative that we train students in the use of software development tools and teach them to adhere to sustainable software development workflows. In this paper, we showcase how we employ a collaborative peer review workflow for the homework assignments of our course on Numerical Linear Algebra for High Performance Computing (HPC). In the workflow we employ, the students are required to operate with the git version control system, perform code reviews, realize unit tests, and plug into a continuous integration system. From the students' performance and feedback, we are optimistic that this workflow encourages the acceptance and usage of software development tools in academic software development.