WIP: A Unit Testing Framework for Self-Guided Personalized Online Robotics Learning

This innovative practice WIP paper describes our ongoing development and deployment of an online robotics education platform that highlighted a gap in providing an interactive, feedback-rich learning environment essential for mastering pro-gramming concepts in robotics, which they were not getting with the traditional code→ simulate→turn-in workflow. Since teaching resources are limited, students would benefit from feedback in real-time to find and fix their mistakes in the programming assignments. To integrate such automated feedback, this paper will focus on creating a system for unit testing while integrating it into the course workflow. We facilitate this real-time feedback by including unit testing in the design of programming assignments so students can understand and fix their errors on their own and without the prior help of instructors/TAs serving as a bottleneck. In line with the framework's personalized student-centered approach, this method makes it easier for students to revise and debug their programming work, encouraging hands-on learning. The updated course workflow, which includes unit tests, will strengthen the learning environment and make it more interactive so that students can learn how to program robots in a self-guided fashion.