Scrutiny Update

Thomas ChestnaRCOS Summer 2011

7/29/2011

Recap: What is Scrutiny?

Open source plagiarism detection for software code.

Tokenizes input files and creates hashes based on structure of code.

Supports a vast multitude of languages.

Original idea by Rob Escriva who has been mentoring me on this project.

What was my schedule?

By July 8th support for ignoring instructor provided code.

By July 22nd a functional database implementation will be completed.

By the end of the month support for running against back assignments will be completed.

August will be spent adding several open source projects to the database and functionality to be hosted on a server.

So where am I now?

The ability to ignore instructor code.

Various fixes in output file. “#include <string>” now shows as it should.

The processing of tar files has been sped up due to optimization.

Support for back assignments has also been added.

And more!

In addition the support of a database is now complete.

Database implimented using sqlite3 because its in the python standard library and Scrutiny's needs aren't that high.

Has the option to just add something straight to the database without printing out comparisons.

What's left?

Due to how the database works adding open source projects from a distribution stand point no longer seems to be a good idea.

Support for removing assignments from the database will be added.

Various optimizations, safety checks, and security.

Questions and suggestions?