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Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend

You're reading from   Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend Learn how to implement a DSL with Xtext and Xtend using easy-to-understand examples and best practices.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464965
Length 426 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lorenzo Bettini Lorenzo Bettini
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface Preface to the second edition
1. Implementing a DSL FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Xtext Language 3. Working with the Xtend Programming Language 4. Validation 5. Code Generation 6. Customizing Xtext Components 7. Testing 8. An Expression Language 9. Type Checking 10. Scoping 11. Continuous Integration 12. Xbase 13. Advanced Topics 14. Conclusions
A. Bibliography
Index

Implementing tests for your DSL

Xtext highly fosters using unit tests, and this is reflected by the fact that, by default, the MWE2 workflow generates specific plug-in projects for testing your DSL. In fact, usually tests should reside in a separate project, since they should not be deployed as part of your DSL implementation. Xtext generates two test projects. One that ends with the .tests suffix, for tests that do not depend on the UI, and one that ends with the .ui.tests suffix, for tests that depend on the UI. For our Entities DSL, these two projects are org.example.entities.tests and org.example.entities.ui.tests. The test plug-in projects have the needed dependencies on the required Xtext utility bundles for testing.

We will use Xtend to write JUnit tests; thanks to all its features, tests will be easier to write and easier to read.

In the src-gen directory of the test projects, you will find the injector providers for headless and UI tests respectively. You can use these providers...

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