automatically grading small programming assignments

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

commander.coder at hotmail.com wrote:
> bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> Then on your PC you can
>   
>> run a script that loads each of such programs, and runs a good series
>> of tests, to test their quality...
>>     
> What happens if someone-- perhaps not even someone in the class-- does
> some version of os.system('rm -Rf /') ?
>
>   
The system administrator should make sure that student user accounts (or 
the auto testing account) doesn't have access to that.  Probably should 
make sure that user applications only get a limited amount of memory too.

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Carl J. Van Arsdall
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