This lecturer urgently needs to consult with a mental health professional and reevaluate his suitability for teaching. Frankly, he should not only learn teaching ethics but consider exiting the education sector altogether. Teaching is evidently not his calling. Instead of instructing on software testing, he should critically assess his own teaching methods first.

Anonymous, Semester 2, 2024

Good course structure, easy to follow, however I maintain my opinion that Arran Stewart is a condescending, passionless lecturer that appears to not care about his infamous reputation at UWA. Are we seriously running level 5 units in Java?

Anonymous, Semester 1, 2023

Awful unit; the unit is well-structured and the readings are informative, but the class experience is the worst. The lecturer actively discouraged attendance to the lectures, even yelling at other students for coming in late. He was condescending in his responses to questions in the help forums, and even defensive in some private responses, as well as incredibly inflexible. His lectures are uninformative and surface-level, and do not add any substance to the readings he insists that are essential, yet those same readings are contradicted by his lectures also. His marking feedbacks are not constructive, the marking keys he uses are not fair at all, and the answers he expects from the surface-level questions he gives are much too detailed. In some cases he expects us to think outside the box and in others he expects us to stay rigid to what we learned, and I didn't know what mood he would be in that day when he marked my work. Dreadful unit all around, which is a shame, because the content is very interesting and very important at the end of the day, yet it is marred by a lecturer who clearly lacks the passion to teach.

Anonymous, Semester 1, 2023