automatic load code, compile, program from external code

Hi,

I am using Quartus II and a Cyclone III device.

I would like to be able to automatically load and compile a Verilog code, and then program the board without my intervention. I would like to control this process from an external software, so that after each time I program the board and before the next programing of it, I will have the external software run some tests on it.

My goal is to repeat the process many times, each time loading a different Verilog code and then testing it.

Is that possible? How do I do this?

Could this be done from C, Python, Matlab?

Thanks,

Itamar.