Would you like an automated tester program for codechef?

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Hi all,

As a side project i’m working on a program that will let me automatically test the programs i write for a particular problem against the sample test cases given in the problem page.

This removes the need to copy paste sample test cases every time i want to test my code.

This is purely a personal project right now, and i’m building it in a way to suit my needs only. I will be integrating this with vim, the editor i use for basic development.

I would like to know how many of you would be interested in using such a program, if i get a good response, i would develop this program in such a way other people would be able to use it.

I could implement a gui to make it usable by users not used to command line, and add the ability to add our own test cases etc.

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Yep, does it have to be only Vim?

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Just use input redirection in the terminal (not sure if works in CMD)

Put the input in a file : input.txt

Then run program in terminal with input redirected like this:
./a.out < input.txt

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Something like this already exists.
It’s works properly on Codeforces and the guy who developed it mentioned that it parses most of the problem statements from codechef too !
You could try using it(I have only used it for codeforces and it works awesome!) and if it doesn’t work on codechef properly,You could go ahead in developing it yourself .
It is open source too !

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