GitHub action in GitHub classrooms (automatic test, new feature)?

[fuhrmanator]

GitHub Classrooms has added (beta?) support for automatic tests (that are run via GitHub actions), and I (as a professor) thought it would be super useful to run gitinspector automatically in a GitHub action when students have submitted an assignment.

I searched for GitHub action use of gitinspector, but didn't see anything yet. Trying to save some time to set it up if it's already been done before.

[adam-waldenberg]

@fuhrmanator Sounds like a very good idea. I never tried it (not yet anyway). But I hope you report back if you can make it work.

As a simple alternative gitinspector can be used with git hooks - then it's just a matter of invoking a simple shell script with the hook.

[adam-waldenberg]

If anyone has some tips and tricks or willing to contribute on this please raise your hand.

[fuhrmanator]

@adam-waldenberg we made some progress this fall on this - I'm trying to document what we did so we can share the experience.