Automatiing the generation and marking of assignments

Hello Netbeans Education.

We have teams of students writing open source projects.  A proposial
that looks like being taken up is to write a specialised form driven
JUnit test harness generator for teachers.  The general concept is that
you complete a form or series of forms describing a class and how it
should be tested.  An assignment description based around the class and
a JUnit test script are then generated. The student takes these away and
and comes back when the test script runs successfully (or when they run
into problems).  Alternatively the description and the script could be
used for examination purposes, with marking based on how many tests are
passed - self-marking!

There is a more detailed description at 

http://cit.wta.swin.edu.au/cit/programming/softdevpack/2003TPCourse/softdev2/MajorProjects/projectlist2004_1/zz_Program_Test_Generator.html

Is there any interest in this out there, or alternatively does anybody
know if it has already been done?

This would seem to be a good candidate for a Netbeans Module.

Richard Forster
Swinburne University
TAFE Division

PS to see an example of a complex forms based system students wrote this
semester see the Protein Crystallography Lab Manager at

http://cit3.cdn.swin.edu.au/cgi-bin/newtopic.cgi?title=Try+out+CLIMS+Now&htmlpath=/majorprojects_2003&dir=/ICS/CLIMSOnline