Stephen H. Edwards and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. Web-CAT user group. Birds-of-a-feather session at the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Portland, OR, USA, March 12-15, 2008.

Web-CAT is the most widely used open-source automated grad-ing system and winner of the 2006 Premier Award, recognizing high-quality, non-commercial courseware for engineering education. Web-CAT is customizable and extensible. It supports a wide variety of programming languages and assessment strategies. Web-CAT is famous for “grading students on how well they test their own code,” but it can do much more. This BOF will allow existing users, new adopters, and those trying to choose an automated grader to meet, share experiences, and talk about what works and what does not. Information on getting started quickly with Web-CAT will also be provided.