[stringtemplate-interest] template testing

[Rafael Chaves]

We adopted StringTemplate in a MDD tool we are developing where users
can customize code generation by editing their templates. I really
miss an easy way to test the templates. Is there anything out there
for this? (If not, we will be rolling our own)

Basically, what I am thinking of is to conventionally use two
templates to represent a test case: one defines the expected output,
and another defines the actual output (by applying the template to be
tested to some parameters). The test runner basically renders each
pair of templates and compares the outputs - if they match, it is a
pass, if they don't, it is a failure (maybe if only spaces differ,
make it a warning).

Has anyone seen anything like that?

Cheers,

Rafael
http://alphasimple.com