[antlr-interest] How many here are using ANTLR Testing?

Jeremy Frens jdfrens at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 11:37:23 PDT 2009


I'm the author of ANTLR Testing (http://antlr-testing.sourceforge.net/), and
I'm curious how many people here (or anywhere) use it.  I've gotten a few
emails from people who've found it and like it.  Now that I'm looking for a
job in industry (after 12+ years in academia), I'm thinking potential
employers might like to know how many are using my library.

For those unfamiliar with the library, it takes a JUnit approach to testing
grammars from ANTLR.  (Unlike gUnit which uses a DSL written with ANTLR for
testing.)  ANTLR Testing (the laziest name for a library, ever) provides
specialized assertion methods for tokens and ASTs.  Its real strength is
using Java's reflection to scan, parse, and tree parse with a fluent
interface.  As an example:

assertTree(
  MyOwnParser.EXPRESSION,  // assert type of root
  "(+(1)(x))",             // assert preorder traversal of AST
  myTester.scanInput("1 + x").parseAs("expression"));

I'm happy to add new features if you like what you see but doesn't quite do
what you want.

jdf

-- 
Jeremy D. Frens
jdfrens at gmail.com
http://www.norecess.org/
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