Re: WANTED: Parser testing tools and/or random sentence generator(s).

One such tool is DGL, by Peter Maurer. You can find information about
it in the comp.software-eng archives, in the test tool section.
Here's some information about those archives:


The following files are available via anonymous FTP from directory
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If you cannot use FTP, send mail to archive-server@qucis.queensu.ca containing
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    testTools 10 Jun 1992 Tools for testing




Another tool was done by a student I worked with, Georgios
Papagiannakopoulos. You can fetch its source and documentation from
cs.uiuc.edu:pub/testing/gtt.tar.Z. It doesn't generate random sentences,
but rather subsets of templates for possible sentences. You can expand
those templates either randomly or (often better) by using
conditions-to-test from other sources.


Brian Marick, marick@cs.uiuc.edu, uiucdcs!marick, marick@testing.com (pending)
Freeware test coverage tool: see cs.uiuc.edu:pub/testing/GCT.README
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