13th IEEE International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP'05)
TETE: A Non-Invasive Unit Testing Framework for Source Transformation
Budapest, Hungary
September 24-September 25
ISBN: 0-7695-2639-X
While the use of test-driven development as a debugging, pedagogic, and analytical methodology for objectoriented and procedural systems is well documented, it is a relatively unexplored and informal practice within the paradigm of source transformation. This paper describes a test-driven approach to the specification and evaluation of source transformation programs through rule-by-rule and type-by-type unit testing. We introduce the Transformation Engineering Toolkit for Eclipse (TETE), a test-driven framework centered around a simple yet flexible infrastructure for automatically and non-invasively unit testing subtransformations, application strategies, and grammar types specified in the TXL source transformation language.
Citation:
Derek M. Shimozawa, James R. Cordy, "TETE: A Non-Invasive Unit Testing Framework for Source Transformation," step, pp.137-146, 13th IEEE International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP'05), 2005