Autograder Script

Synopsis

autograder.py [options] file1 [file2 [file3...]]

Overview

A short python script designed to help automate grading of programming assignments. Full documentation is available here!

Details

usage: ag.py [-h] [-d MAINDIR] [-t TOOLONG] [-l LOGFILE] [-m MAKESTR]
			 [-s TESTSCRIPT] [-k DELIMITER] [-o SCORESFILE] [-a]
			 implfiles [implfiles ...]

positional arguments:
  implfiles             Name of students' implementation file(s), e.g.
						'hello.cpp'.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help 			show this help message and exit
  -d DIR, --maindir=DIR	The main directory containing student directories.
						Default: the current directory.
  -t TIMEOUT, --toolong=TIMEOUT
						No. of seconds before program is determined non-
						responsive.  Default: 5.
  -l LOGFILE, --logfile=LOGFILE
						Temporary file to store compiler output.
						Default: "clog"
  -m MAKECMD, --makestr=MAKECMD
						Command to run in order to build students' code.
						Default: "/usr/bin/make"
  -s TESTSCRIPT, --testscript=TESTSCRIPT
						Test script to produce delimited output of tests.
						Default: "./test.sh"
  -k DELIM, --delimiter=DELIM
						Delimiter used to separate tests in the output files.
						Default: "@"
  -o SCORES, --scoresfile=SCORES
						Filename to store the tab-delimited scores.
						Default: "scores"
  -p, --missingok		Attempt to grade, even if some implementation files
  						are missing.
  --exclude EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]
                        List of directories (relative to maindir) to exclude.
  -f, --force 			Force regrade, even if files are up to date.
						Note: this can also be accomplished by changing the
						output file: --o="aNewFile"