Need reference for submissions that fail checks badly

[Per Hallgren]

For tracking down issues with the automatic checks, it would be good if there was some information in the call to our check server. If there's an issue with a check, we need to know which group triggered the check and currently I don't have a way to obtain this without looking through all submissions on fire.

E.g. :

• If the check is down (some student crashed something) and I'm not restarting within an hour, I need to know which student's are in "pending" so we can manually handle the submissions.
• If there's a bug in the check so that it runs through but doesn't give enough logs for recreating it, I want to download their submissions so I can debug the check.

This could be just a get parameter or something appended to the url, like http://checkdomain.com?cb=$blaBla&zip=$fooBar&gid=$group_number

[Evgeny Kotelnikov]

I understand the issue.

Maybe a better solution would be to keep a log of all requests to and responses from the check server and make it visible in the Fire interface?

[Per Hallgren]

Sounds like a very good idea!