[antlr-interest] Testing a grammar

[shmuel siegel]

Martin Probst wrote:
>> I have a more general problem namely I wrote a grammar and now I want  
>> to test it, which means I need test cases so that every posibility of  
>> the grammar is covered by one test case.
> 
> I think Terence wrote something like that once, a tool that generates
> random and meaningless, but syntactically correct, expressions from your
> grammar. Maybe in the filesharing section?
> 
> Martin
> 
That strikes me as something that might test the program that uses the 
parser but it would hardly test the parser. After all, the test input is 
guaranteed to obey the rules of the parser.


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