How can I test a parser?

Hello. Would someone please help me out. I would like to find a clever way to
help me test my yacc generated parser. What I am looking for is some way that
I can find out which states were never entered during parsing of my test input
data. This will allow me to add statements that are at least syntactically
correct to the test data to exercise the previously unvisited states. This can
continue until no unvisited states are reported.


Is there some way to automatically generate test input based on the yacc
grammar that exercise all productions?


Thanks for the help.


Farrukh Najmi.
[From najmi@hpcuhb.HP.COM (Farrukh Najmi)]
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