[antlr-interest] Rule coverage testing

[Jim Idle]

Switch to maven, write coverage tests (there are food choices for java  
ones ) to run against the binary parser and see which methods are  
never called . Methods are named after rules.

Jim

On Sep 18, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Micke Hovmöller  
<micke.hovmoller at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've written a reasonably large grammar for handling poker hand  
> histories. I have worked on and off for about a year or so on this.  
> During this time, the file format has changed slightly. I suspect  
> that I now have a bunch of rules in my grammar that are no longer  
> used.
>
> What are best practices for establishing rule coverage test cases?  
> Ideally, I want to have a bunch of infiles, run them through the  
> grammar and have output displaying which rules were never used.  
> Showing frequency of usage would be nice, but it is definitely not  
> needed.
>
> This is developed in NetBeans 6.7.1 with the ANTLR plugin, so  
> anything that runs in that environment is much preferred to any  
> other solution, but I am prepared to switch IDE if that is required.
>
> /Micke
>
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