PA1 Grade is Published

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We have graded PA1. Each part of PA1's grade is published separately on Canvas.

For public and hidden tests, here are the steps to reproduce the grading process yourself:

1. Clone the PA1 solution from: https://github.com/CastleLab/COMP3021-F22-PA-Student-Version/tree/PA1

2. Replace build.gradle.kts and src/test in your project with that in the PA1 solution. This is meant to avoid polluted test cases (modified by you) in your submission and include some grading scripts. 

3. At the root directory of your project, run the following command:

./gradlew grade --args='.'

4. You will find two TSV files generated in the root directory: public-tests.tsv and hidden-tests.tsv.
   They show the execution results of public and hidden tests, respectively.
   These two files can be interpreted as follows:

• Each column represents one test case.
• All public tests are executed 10 times (rounds).
• Each round results in a line in the public-tests.tsv file. 1 and -1 refers to Pass and Fail, respectively.
• All hidden tests are executed 10 times (rounds).
• Each round results in a line in the hidden-tests.tsv file. 1 and -1 refers to Pass and Fail, respectively.

5. Aggregate the execution results of each test case.

• For each test, if any round of its execution fails, we consider you failed this test case.
  This is meant to deal with flaky tests, which should be avoided in implementation.

The score of public and hidden tests are then computed using the formula in the assignment specification.

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Here are the Appeal Policies:

• For classmates who made incorrect or void submission on CASS. Please let us know the URL to your private GitHub repository by 4 Nov 2022. We will grade based on the last GitHub commit before submission deadline. No penalty will be applied if it is the first time that you made submission mistakes for PAs in the course.
• For classmates who did not invite us to your private GitHub repository. Please let us know and send us the invitation by 5 Nov 2022. We will grade based on the last GitHub commit before submission deadline. No penalty will be applied if it is the first time that you made submission mistakes for PAs in the course.
• For classmates who wish us to grade the version committed at GitHub after the submission deadline, a penalty of 5% per hour delay (rounded up to the next hour) will be applied. For example, 10% penalty will be applied if we grade your submission based on a committed version made at 1:01am, 1 Oct 2022.
• We consider only the committed time of your submission at GitHub.
• We will override the entire src/test directory for grading. For classmates who modified the given public or protected members in the skeleton code and cause a compilation error, they will get a zero for both public tests and hidden tests.

The appeal will start from next Monday (Nov 7, 00:00) and will last for one week (i.e., ends on Nov 13, 23:59). We will add a submission entry for appeal at Canvas. Please submit a PDF file with justification for your appeal.