Syntax Directed Test Generation

cswart@glacier.analogy.com (Chuck Swart)
22 Apr 1997 21:22:29 -0400

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From: cswart@glacier.analogy.com (Chuck Swart)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 22 Apr 1997 21:22:29 -0400
Organization: Analogy, Inc., Beaverton OR
Keywords: parse, testing

I am interested in the following problem: Given a grammar in BNF (or
perhaps EBNF) automatically generate a set of test cases which will
cause all productions in the grammar to be used when these test cases
are parsed.


Altthough there are some interesting issues (such as how to deal with
terminals, iterations in EBNF, unreachable productions, and
productions which can't yield terminal strings, etc,) this seems like
a fairly obvious problem which probably has already been investigated.


I would appreciate pointers to work in this area.


Thanks in advance,


Chuck Swart
cswart@analogy.com
[I've seen work on generating test cases, but I don't recall anything that
attempts to provide code coverage of a rule-based parser. -John]


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