[plt-dev] Programmatic running of student programs

From: David Van Horn (dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu May 14 13:41:00 EDT 2009

Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
> I don't know how much of sand-boxing there is, but TestFest has a lot
> of infrastructure for grading...  Arjun?

The sand-box needs are minimal; just syntactically disallowing `require' 
would work for my purposes, and that's easy enough for me to do.

David

> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:34 PM, David Van Horn <dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> Is there an existing tool for running student (BSL, ISL, ...) programs in a
>> sand-boxed environment?  I would like to compute the results, the test
>> report, and whether an error was raised, preferably without interacting or
>> even using mred.
>>
>> David
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