Re: [cdt-dev] Reusing parser tests

[Mike Kucera <mkucera@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm reusing many of the tests for my own ILanguage implementation. Its pretty cumbersome at the moment, because the tests don't actually call the parser through ILanguage. Instead they call the CDT core parser directly. The way I was able to reuse the tests was to subclass each one individually and override whatever parse() method the test has. Take a look in the lrparser test plugin to see how it works.

I am planning on doing something to improve the situation. I want to refactor the tests to use ILanguage and make it easy to specify your own ILanguage to run. It would also be useful to turn off individual tests because not all parsers are created equal. Now that CDT has language extensibility it needs to have extensible and reusable test suites also.

This is something I will probably be working on very soon. If you have any comments please let me know.

I'm also curious, what's your language that you're adding? How far are you in implementing it? I'm working on a parser framework that will make it easier to add language extensions to CDT. If you are working on an extension to C or C++ then we should talk.

Mike Kucera
Software Developer
IBM CDT Team, Toronto
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"Richard Miskin" ---04/25/2008 03:23:04 AM---Hi,

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Hi,
 
I’m in the process of creating a new ILanguage that uses our parser to produce a CDT AST (with bindings etc). I’ve got some tests that I’ve written myself but I was wondering whether it would be viable to reuse any of the existing tests from the CDT project.
 
Any views?
 
Cheers,
Richard

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