Parsing ------- Some sanity is emerging in the testing of parsers (Parsers are fiddly in respect to space and order, small changes may and do have unexpected effects) Parsing is a two step process with parslet: - parse takes an input and outputs hashes/arrays with basic types - tramsform takes the output of parse and generates an ast (as specified by the transformation) A test tests both phases seperately and again together. Each test must thus specify (as instance variables): - the string input - the parse output - the transform output Test are grouped by functionality into cases and define methods parse_* Test cases must include ParserHelper, which includes the magic to write the 3 test methods for each parse method. See test_basic ofr easy example.