The positive potential impacts of the Test Tool as a functioning system include increased convenience in managing, creating, generating, taking, and grading tests. The positive impacts of the Test Tool are as follows:

1. the presentation of an intuitive, non-trivial software system that both teachers and students can use as a means of completely eliminating paper usage in the testing system.

2. a minimization of energy spent over previously laborious manual tasks, such as analysis of tests and organization of test data.

3. an illustration of how technology can streamline fundamental tools in the educational system.

Potential negative impacts include those common to any user-oriented software system. Viz., if the system is poorly designed and implemented, it can be inconvenient to use and become more time-consuming rather than efficient. More specific negative impacts relate to issues of reliability and cheating. If the system implementation is flawed, it may allow students taking the test to use inappropriate means for gathering and entering answers. Testing is a crucial part of the educational system; if an institution relies on a flawed implementation of the system to assess students, the institution may suffer significant consequences regarding oversight and management. Major disruption may also occur if the system loses or corrupts important test data.

As a course example, the use of the Test Tool has no significant negative impacts, unless its development methodology is considered weak or inefficient for a particular course. Such negative impacts can be easily avoided if instructors understand the components of the tool before using it in a particular software engineering curriculum.