[plt-dev] Programmatic running of student programs

John Clements wrote:
> 
> On May 14, 2009, at 10:34 AM, David Van Horn 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.
> 
> You don't say here whether you want the results of your tests or of the 
> student tests.
> 
> I suspect that you want the results of your tests, and I furthermore 
> suspect that the easiest way to get this running is to use the handin 
> server; you can run it locally, to hide it from the students, and I'd be 
> happy to supply example files though of course Eli would be far more 
> qualified.

No, I just want the results of running the program.  I don't need to 
interact with it, feed it tests, check for bindings, or anything else. 
I'd like to be able to provide a file name and get back a list of 
values, and either an exception value or a test report value.

David