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@dodona/dolos
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Dolos is a source code plagiarism detection tool for programming exercises. Dolos helps teachers in discovering students sharing solutions, even if they are modified. By providing interactive visualizations, Dolos can also be used to sensitize students to prevent plagiarism.
Dolos aims to be:
Dolos is a command-line (CLI) tool that analyses source code files for similarities between them. It is able to show an interactive user interface in your browser by launching a local webserver. The analysis results are available in machine readable CSV files and Dolos can be integrated as a JavaScript library in other applications empowering users to integrate plagiarism detection in their personal workflow.
You can install Dolos on your system using npm:
npm install -g @dodona/dolos
See the installation instructions on our website for more complete instructions.
Dolos has to be launched using the command-line interface, but it is able to show the results in your browser.
Launch Dolos using the following command in your terminal:
dolos run -f web --language <language> path/to/your/files/*
The above command will launch a web interface with the analysis results at http://localhost:3000.
More elaborate instructions on how to use Dolos.
Visit our web page at https://dolos.ugent.be.
This project uses yarn workspaces so you will need to use yarn.
yarn install
in the root directory, this will link the web
project
with the cli
project as well.web
format, you need to build the web project first.yarn build
yarn test
FAQs
Code similarity detection based on the Winnowing algorithm
The npm package @dodona/dolos receives a total of 34 weekly downloads. As such, @dodona/dolos popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @dodona/dolos demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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