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THE ADDITION OF EXERCISE PROCEDURE

Needs to be updated since the refactor

This is for a go exercise in the piscine-go

1. Writing the subject and / or writing the solution

Always address each exceptional cases.

Example: fprime.

The exceptional cases in the usage part.

$ go run . 225225
3*3*5*5*7*11*13
$ go run . 8333325
3*3*5*5*7*11*13*37

...

$ go run . 0

$ go run . 1
1
$

The subject states that only positive integer will be tested, however, 0 and 1 are not primes.

The subject writer made a mistake because of forgetting that fact.

During the exam, the test was testing the 1 case and expecting a 1\n to be printed. The real result should only have been a \n.

Some students found this mistake. An update of the subject during the exam treating that special case was immediately necessary.

Try to avoid the “you” and contracted “language”
Always check the formating md

fprime (Title of the exercise)

Instructions (Instructions of the exercise)

Write a program that takes a positive int and displays its prime factors, followed by a newline ('\n'). (general guidelines, notice the imperative style tense and the avoidance of “you”. “You” is authorized in the case of a presence of a back story where the player is immersed)

Factors must be displayed in ascending order and separated by *. (formating requirement)
If the number of arguments is different from 1, the program displays a newline. (special case requirement, this case will need to be tested)
The input, when there is one, will always be valid. (Clarification on what the tester will do, hence giving the student guidelines on the cases to be handled, the tests have to reflect this instruction as well)
In this exercise the primes factor of 1 is considered as 1. (Handling of exceptional case: THIS Happens to be a mistake, we will see uses this example for the “UPDATING A SUBJECT/TEST PROCEDURE”)

Usage

$ go run . 225225
3*3*5*5*7*11*13
$ go run . 8333325
3*3*5*5*7*11*13*37
$ go run . 9539
9539
$ go run . 804577
804577
$ go run . 42
2*3*7
$ go run . a

$ go run . 0

$ go run . 1
1
$

2. Creating the files for tests (4 main cases)

always in -> all/tests/go/

Folder organization

Function exercise in a Quest (strlen)
- 2 files:
  - strlen_test.go
  - solutions/strlen.goz

go
| strlen_test.go
|
| __ solutions
|     |-strlen.go (package solutions)
|
| __ student (the same thing as the solutions, just run "cp -aT solutions/ student/")

Program exercise in a Quest (doop)
- 2 files
  - doop_test.go
  - solutions/doop/main.go

go
| doop_test.go
|
|
| __ solutions
|     |__doop
|          |-main.go (package main)
|
| __ student (the same thing as the solutions, just run "cp -aT solutions/ student/")

Program exercise in the exam (dooprog)
- 2 files
  - solutions/doopprog/main.go
  - solutions/doopprog/doopprog_test.go

go
|
| __ solutions
|   | __ doopprog
|         |-main.go (package main)
|         |-doopprog_test.go
|
| __ student (the same thing as the solutions, just run "cp -aT solutions/ student/")

Function exercise in the exam (atoiprog)
- 3 files
  - solutions/atoi.go
  - solutions/atoiprog/main.go
  - solutions/atoiprog/atoiprog_test.go

go
|
| __ solutions
|     |
|     |-atoi.go (package solutions)
|     |__atoiprog
|            |-main.go (package main)(func main(){} stays empty)
|            |-atoiprog_test.go
|
| __ student (the same thing as the solutions, just run "cp -aT solutions/ student/")

3. Writing a file_test.go (test file for go)

RULE 1

Make the test as independent as possible (no self-made functions imported)
If the source is not in the import section, copy and paste the function, with lowercase for the first letter of its name.
Example: addprimesum_test.go

The func isAPrime is fully copied to the file.

RULE 2

Every special case in the subject should be tested. Preferably first. Before the randoms tests

RULE 3

Whenever possible do at least 1 random test! This is to avoid cheating by predictability of the tests. If the tests are fixed, then the student may create a forest of ifs program to bypass the tester.

z01.functions to be used by tester

Function exercise in a Quest (strlen)

z01.Challenge(t, studentSol, studentStu) // if the program doesn’t have arguments

z01.Challenge(t, studentSol, studentStu, args...) //if the program has arguments

Program exercise in a Quest (doop) <- Screenshots to be added.

z01.ChallengeMain(t) // if the program doesn’t have arguments

z01.ChallengeMain(t, args...) // if the program has arguments

Program exercise in the exam (dooprog) Screenshots to be added.

z01.ChallengeMainExam(t) // if the program doesn’t have arguments

z01.ChallengeMainExam (t, args...) // if the program has arguments

Function exercise in the exam (Atoiprog) Screenshots to be added.

z01.Challenge(t, studentSol, studentStu) // if the program doesn’t have arguments

z01.Challenge(t, studentSol, studentStu, args...) //if the program has arguments

4. Testing locally (`go test` or `go test -run=Test\<nameOfTheFunction\>`)

you do -run=... because you have many test files, so you need to run just one

Before every PR : a go test has to be executed (in several situations) in the folder(s) of the exercise(s) worked on

First thing first

rm -r student
cp -aT solutions/ student

Execute a go test in the appropriate folder

Function exercise in a Quest (strlen)

all/test/go

go test -run=TestStrlen

Program exercise in a Quest (doop) <- Screenshots to be added.

all/test/go/

go test -run=TestDoop

Program exercise in the exam (dooprog) Screenshots to be added.

Here you can do just go test, because there's only one test file

all/test/go/student/dooprog

go test

Function exercise in the exam (atoiprog) Screenshots to be added.

all/test/go/student/atoiprog

go test

NOTE: If a go test gives a (cached) result, use this type of command (example with raid3):

go test count=1 raid3_test.go

The result should be an OK message:

This means that the test is running correctly when the correct solution is given. If this does not work, the test file is likely to have errors inside.
Time should be under 5-6 seconds. If longer, remove some of the iteration of the random tests (for example, less random tests)
Be watchful of exercises with challenge function: Always test a copy of the variable and not the same variable for both the student and the solution function.
Introduce errors in the student solution.go file in order to see the errors message and compare them to the subject examples.
Error messages for structures exercises (linked lists, binary trees) need to be tailored accordingly.

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