DEVELOPMENT OF TESTING SOFTWARE IN THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM

The paper is devoted to the development of the software system for testing students of advanced training courses and its approbation. The problems of automation of course preparation quality monitoring are considered. The most effective measure is testing with the help of the corresponding software package, which is the basis of the automated system of questioning of listeners. An analysis of existing computer testing systems is hold. The experience of the Belgorod Institute of Education Development was used as an example. The work shows that the core of an automated system for audience questionnaire as a universal computer platform for the implementation of a unified information space of an educational organization should be a program complex of input and output testing provided by using modular and object-oriented programming techniques, component programming technology and database apparatus using the scripting language of PHP programming that provides multiplatform system. The substantiation of a choice of software of creation of the program complex of entrance and target testing of listeners is carried out. As a tool for developing the program complex of input and output testing as an element of the system of computer questioning of listeners, the “thin client” technology was chosen as a means of web programming. The requirements to the functional characteristics of the projected software product are formulated. The database of the software complex was designed. A class diagram was developed that assumes that software “communication” with data in the context of applications is object-oriented, and work with tables of the relational database is at a lower level, relative to the user interface and business logic, the architectural level. ER-diagram for the creation of which was used a free program for MySQL database administration (MySQL Workbench) was also developed. The opportunities and features of the developed automated system for audience questionnaire are described. The developed system makes it possible to form several types of reports both by listeners’ category, by groups and by an individual listener. The designed graphic editor allows forming various kinds of diagrams. The system also allows conducting rating of the faculty with the purpose of taking organizational measures of influence and implementation of the principles of pedagogical reflection. The advantages of the developed complex of input and output testing are highlighted in this paper. During the operation of the developed software complex in BelIro its additional advantages and features were revealed. An automated system was also adjusted to take account of the data obtained.

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