[TxMt] Automated tests for language grammar rules?

[Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient)]

On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On 18. Apr 2007, at 19:08, Daryl Spitzer wrote:
>
>>> Oops.  I got caught submitting a change without testing it.  I don't
>>> seem capable of never repeating that mistake--that's where automated
>>> tests come in handy.
>> Is there any facility for creating automated tests for language  
>> grammar rules?
>> [...]
>
> Currently not, but in 2.0 my plan is to have “mate” (or more likely  
> a dedicated shell command) expose a bit of TM functionality to the  
> shell, this includes parsing a file and outputting the XML (as one  
> can currently get as input from a TM command).
>
> This will make it fairly simple to write scripts (or a framework)  
> for testing grammars, something we definitely do want to have :)
>
> One little nicety is that this can also perform benchmarks on  
> grammars, reporting which rules the parser spends the most time  
> with (making it easier to find problematic rules).

Awesome!
Sign me up for some sweet test driven syntax creation goodness!

thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
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