| Category | Criteria | Points |
Design
14 points total |
Evidence of design planning; conceptual clarity |
0-3 |
| Good choice of packages, classes, interfaces, and methods |
0-3 |
| Modularity/abstraction |
0-2 |
| Appropriate use of design patterns |
0-2 |
| Extensibility |
0-2 |
| Reasonable rationale
behind design (inferred from the code and documentation.).
|
0-2 |
Implementation
14 points total |
Consistent use of identifiers |
0-2 |
| Appropriate use of comments |
0-2 |
| Appearance and maintainability of code |
0-2 |
| Choice and implementation of algorithms |
0-4 |
| Appropriate use of programming metaphors,
constants, exceptions, etc. |
0-2 |
Reasonable rationale behind implementation
(inferred from the code and documentation). |
0-2 |
Documentation
13 points max |
Discussion and justification against alternative designs, implementations,
and tests, or justification of why there were no alternatives. |
0-2 |
| Good balance of thoroughness and brevity |
0-3 |
| Neatness and organisation. |
0-2 |
| Easy to understand |
0-3 |
| Usefulness in maintaining or extending this software. |
0-3 |
Testing
7 points max |
Range/breadth of tests |
0-2 |
| Coverage by appropriate metric (code, decision, etc.) |
0-2 |
| Reasonable rationale behind testing (inferred from the code and
documentation). |
0-3 |
|
48 points max
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