The Corona Project: a testing framework for programming contests
Stephen D. Gewand, Greta Q. Heissenberger · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2004
Every year, approximately 40 teams of high school students compete in an annual high school programming contest at St. Bonaventure University. The students' solutions are fed a standard set of secret test data, allowed to run, and judged solely upon their output. In the past, judges of the programming contest have had to enter test data for each of the individual solutions and manually compare the program's output to the correct answers. This method requires a good deal of time and manpower. The Corona Project automates this process. This will improve the accuracy of judging and allow judging to be done by the students themselves without revealing the test data. Additionally, high school computer science teachers will be able to utilize Corona to grade student's assignments, and students will be able to test their solutions as they are developed.