[Cobalt-general] BOSS V3.0 alpha 1 released

[Daniel W. <bo...@dc...>]

We are releasing a copy of the current CVS tree at the University of
Warwick as, for the last few weeks, intensive development work has taken
place to upgrade BOSS. New features include:

-> A web client for using BOSS from a website rather than the previous 
java application client.
-> A new updated GUI for the application clients.
-> JUnit testing of student submissions
-> Sherlock plagiarism detector now included with capabilities to detect 
plagiarism on natural language submissions as well as source-code 
submissions.
-> Simple database caching to speed access to the coresoft database
-> Various bug fixes

Please bear in mind that this is a development version of the code and as
such, not all features are currently available in the new clients as we
haven't written the code yet! Also, the documentation is hopelessly out of
date. A feature-complete, tested, documented and stable version of the
software will be available soon.


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Daniel White
University of Warwick
Personal email: D.R...@wa...
Work email: bo...@dc...