Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Dynamic program viewing is a form of visual verification in which a student executes one or more statements in a program and interactively observes the behavior in basic viers (e.g., an object with its fields) and/or conceptual viers (e.g., the structural display of binary search tree). This activity can be extremely useful from a program understanding perspective as ll as a debugging perspective. In contrast, testing (e.g., with JUnit) provides a way to create persistent test cases and then run and re-run them in an efficient way.  have observed that dynamic program viewing and testing are quite complementary. When test cases are written and executed, dynamic program viewing becomes a valuable aid in traditional debugging as ll. Since most test cases are written at the functional level (e.g., did a method return the expected value?), dynamically viewing test methods as they execute can provide students with a deeper level of understanding. The jGRASP IDE has been extended to allow students to combine dynamic program viewing with JUnit testing. ,  discuss both the technical success of this effort and several examples that demonstrate the potential for student use in early computing courses.
['James H. Cross', 'T. Dean Hendrix', 'Larry A. Barowski']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Combining Dynamic Program Viewing and Testing in Early Computing Courses
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