Week 10 : 10/30/07 - 11/05/07( Revised Implementation of check.properties generation)

Generating check.properties

This week focussed on the revised implementation of the check.properties generation

As discussed, this process will have a wizard interface.

1. When an exercise is uploaded, labrat-web will look for a check.properties file



2. Contents of Page 1 -General of the wizard
Generating check.properties for exercise - ExP6_5

Q1.Main class of the assignment     DataAnalyzer.java
                                                                   DataSet.java
                                                                DataSetTester.java

Q2 File Name     Editable
DataAnalyzer.java     []
DataSet.java     []
DataSetTester.java    []


Q3 [] Is this a GUI Application?

Navigation Flow
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If the box is unchecked then it is forwarded to Page 2 which displays "console" properties.


3. Contents of Page 2 - "console" of the wizard



Generating check.properties for exercise - ExP6_5
[ ]Run this program
[ ] with this input [ -------------------------]
[ ] with input(s) provided in file(s)
[ ] without inputs

Command line [--------------------------------]
Classpath [-----------------------------------]


[ ] compare output to content stored in file(s) [-------------------]
[ ] capture output to report


ISSUES

1. I had problems with generating this UI

[ ] with this input [ -------------------------]

It is kind of difficult to produce a text box next to a radio button. The closest I got to in generating this UI was this jsf snippet

<html:selectOneRadio layout="pageDirection" value="#
{exerciseUpload.currentExercise.studentDir.mainclassRunOptions}" >
<core:selectItem itemValue="1" itemLabel="with this input ">
[<html:inputText size="50" value= "#{exerciseUpload.currentExercise.studentDir.runMainClassInput}" /> ]

</core:selectItem>


</html:selectOneRadio>


2. This UI element

[ ] capture output to report

doesn't have a corresponfing property. The check.xml(labrat tool) basically checks if the *.out is present. If not it is just copied to a report file.

Does it need to be in the UI ?

3. This UI element

[ ]Run this program
[ ] without inputs

doesn't have any corresponding property in check.properties. Again check.xml checks if the property test.run.inputstring is set. If it hasn't been set then a blank string id assigned to this property.

Does it need to be in the UI ?


Navigation Flow
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When this page is submitted, the wizard will check for the existence of *Tester*.java or *Test.java. If any of these files exists, it will forward to the "tester" properties page which is page 3 of the wizard.


4. Contents of alternate Page 2 - GUI of wizard


Generating check.properties for exercise - ExP6_5

[ ]Run this Program DataAnalyzer.java
DataSet.java
DataSetTester.java
Command line [----------------------------------------]


Navigation Flow
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When this page is submitted, the wizard will check for the existence of *Tester*.java or *Test.java. If any of these files exists, it will forward to the "tester" properties page which is page 3 of the wizard.

5. Contents of Page 3 - "tester"

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[ ] Run tester program
o Horstmann Style test ("Expected: ")
0 JUnit test

Navigation Flow
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If the option "Horstmann Style .." is selected, then the wizard checks for the existence of file *.in, which are input files for the tester. If the file is not found an error is thrown.

Issues
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1. I think the user should be given a chance to generate the input and output files instead of throwing an error.


6. Contents of Page 4 - "output" capture and compare


Generating check.properties for exercise - ExP6_5

Select the type of comparison to use.
0 line
0 word
0 number

Enter the tolerance factor when comparing numbers [-------------------]

Navigation Flow
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The wizard generates the check.properties at this stage and forwards to the "view results" page.


7. Contents of Page 5 - View results page

Assignment Upload Status:

Check.properties file was successfully generated. Save this file for future use.

View Result
ExP6_5URL for the assignment is given below:

http://localhost:8080/labrat-web/exercise_submit_files.faces?directory=3a9sglth0e1ri3wd6izigveya&problem=CS40%2FExP6_5

If you want to register for easy uploading of exercises in future - Register


The generated URL will be published to the student for submitting the assigment.


Setting up labrat and labrat-web on OSLO

Tried to connect to oslo but it didn;'t connect through telnet

Microsoft Telnet>
Microsoft Telnet> open oslo.cs.sjsu.eduConnecting To oslo.cs.sjsu.edu...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed
Microsoft Telnet> open oslo.cs.sjsu.eduConnecting To oslo.cs.sjsu.edu...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed

Microsoft Telnet> open oslo.cs.sjsu.eduConnecting To oslo.cs.sjsu.edu...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed

Microsoft Telnet>