The eval project offers a simple toolkit for evaluating student C code in an academic environment. It is meant to be used by the teaching staff to prepare a set of unit tests for student code in the framework of a specific project/assignment, that the students can then use to test their code, as well as for grading purposes.
The main features of the eval environment are:
- Providing a sandboxed environment for running student code that will catch all (most?) situations that would lead the program to halt or block, giving detailed information when this happens;
- Redirecting input/output to automate tests requiring interactive use;
- Capturing system function call parameters and outputs, and allowing the test to be run using specific behaviors for these functions.
- Providing a simple log system, useable with functions with a syntax similar to the
printf()family, that can be used for output by the test code and later easily verified.
For more details on the features available in the toolkit be sure to check the documentation.
The toolkit was initially developed for use in the "Operating Systems" course unit taught at ISCTE - University Insitute of Lisbon, Portugal, for undergraduate computer science students.
Full documentation, including compilation instructions, is available here. The source code is also fully documented.