Paper test generator for testing candidates.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Requirements

• pip3 install tabulate

Usage

Use generate-fake-questions.sh to generate some fake questions for testing purposes.

Run test-generator.py -d directory to generate file with questions. directory is name of directory with questions. You can provide multiple directories. Example: test-generator.py -d dir1 -d dir2.

Two files will be generated:

• test-UUID-candidate.html
• test-UUID-hr.html

The first one is for candidate. The second one has correct answers marked. You can give it to HR people so they can check test results by themselves. UUID is random ID. Each test has this UUID in file name and inside document content. Thanks to it you will be able to match version without answers with version with answers.

You can generate some tests in advance and give them to HR. They will print them and hand them out to candidates when they arrive.

Limitations

Remember that this test generator is not a ultimate solution for testing candidates! It only helps in efficient way to do basic technical screening process.

Structure of questions database

The "database" of questions is set of directories and files. Each database has to be in specified directory. Let's assume that we have a directory named test-questions-1. In this directory you have to create subdirectories for each question. In the question subdirectory you create file named question. In this file you have to put question content. In the question subdirectory you have to create directory named answers. In answers directory you have to create directory named 1. In answers/1 directory you have to create one file. This file's name is irrelevant. It can be anything. Inside this file you have to put correct answer. In answers directory you have to create directory named 0. In answers/0 directory you have to create four files. Names of files are irrelevant. Name them whatever you want. Inside this files you have to put incorrect answers. In files with question and answers you can use HTML. Files' content will be included in HTML document.

You can find example of questions database in test2-real-questions directory.

Directory structure example:

% tree test2-real-questions
test2-real-questions
├── linux-process-list
│   ├── answers
│   │   ├── 0
│   │   │   ├── ans1
│   │   │   ├── ans2
│   │   │   ├── ans3
│   │   │   └── ans4
│   │   └── 1
│   │       └── ans1
│   └── question
├── which-command-will-disable-network-access
│   ├── answers
│   │   ├── 0
│   │   │   ├── ans1
│   │   │   ├── ans2
│   │   │   ├── ans3
│   │   │   └── ans4
│   │   └── 1
│   │       └── ans1
│   └── question
└── which-one-is-nosql-database
    ├── answers
    │   ├── 0
    │   │   ├── ans1
    │   │   ├── ans2
    │   │   ├── ans3
    │   │   └── ans4
    │   └── 1
    │       └── ans1
    └── question

12 directories, 18 files

Examples

Generated test examples with fake questions.

• Version for candidate.
• Version with answers.