[antlr-interest] gUnit: Some suggestions

[Leon Su]

Hi Sumanto,

Thanks for the suggestions. Good points for my development of the  
next version.
About the number 2, I also noticed the same issue from a user's  
response. I fixed
it on the 1.0.1, and will update 1.0.2 soon :)

Leon

On Jul 2, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Sumanto Biswas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been using gUnit 1.0.2 with antlr 3.1b1 and it has helped me in
> automating test cases, specially positive ones a lot. Thanks for
> developing a unit test framework for antlr !!
>
> I have a few suggestions:
> 1. Add debug option which when set can print some debug info, like:
>> Start/End execution of each test case with i/p string, rule name etc,
>> Lexer and parser classes being used.
> 2. Should not exit on InvocationTargetException. Presently code does
> "System.setErr(consoleErr); e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1);".
> Since I have set test-case to FAIL anyways, and the exception wraps
> MismatchedTokenException, I would want to continue with test case
> processing. Stack trace pasted below for reference.
> 3. Ability to check and match for Exception and messages. e.g. '"a = 4
> +- 5" FAIL::Exception::message
>
> Regards,
> Sumanto
>
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> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
> 	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source)
> 	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke 
> (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
> 	at org.antlr.gunit.gUnitExecuter.runParser(gUnitExecuter.java:239)
> 	at org.antlr.gunit.gUnitExecuter.runCorrectParser 
> (gUnitExecuter.java:131)
> 	at org.antlr.gunit.gUnitExecuter.executeTests(gUnitExecuter.java:149)
> 	at org.antlr.gunit.gUnitExecuter.execTest(gUnitExecuter.java:96)
> 	at org.antlr.gunit.Interp.main(Interp.java:62)
> 	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> 	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke 
> (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
> 	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke 
> (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
> 	at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java: 
> 90)
> Caused by: MismatchedTokenException(-1!=27)
> 	at org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.recoverFromMismatchedToken 
> (BaseRecognizer.java:630)
> 	at org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.match(BaseRecognizer.java:117)
> 	at soslParser.searchSpec(soslParser.java:933)
> 	at soslParser.sosl(soslParser.java:298)
> 	... 13 more
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