[antlr-interest] Automated testing of lexer/parser rules

[Terence Parr]

On Apr 5, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Bharath S wrote:

> Hi Grp,
>
> Can somebody provide information on how to automate
> the testing of lexer/parser rules? I usually put my
> test cases in a text file and feed it to my main
> program using the direction operator. I am using Antlr
> in Eclipse IDE and would like to automate testing
> using JUnit. Can someone shed some light on this?

Howdy.  I will be putting some thought into this myself to test antlr 3 
functionality.  Definitely you want to use the parse-tree/derivation 
stuff I put into 2.7.3 so you can see precisely how the tool parses 
your input.

Ter
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