CST 8152 Compilers - Assignments #1&2Evaluation Sheet I

• Adheres to assignment submission requirement?

  • On time?
  • All pages fastened firmly or in envelope?
  • Identified with name, student ID number, Lab section number, and course number?
  • Submitted source listing, including .h files?
  • Programming follows Algonquin standard?
  • Submitted listings of input test file(s) and generated output for each test?

• General coding style?

  • wrote it once
  • only -1, 0, and 1 as constants, everything else using #define
  • clearly marked Boolean, pointer, integer, and character zeroes: boolean != NULL != 0 != ‘\0’
  • checked and validated input (including detecting excess input)
  • didn’t modify function arguments
  • fopen/fclose at same level
  • checked all possible function return codes
  • read input in only one place
  • avoided global variables
  • printed really good error messages that explained the exact error
  • got the code right first, then optimized

• Testing strategy?

  • an empty file
  • no strings in file
  • huge string spanning many lines
  • odd number of " in file (unterminated string)
  • empty strings still counted: ""
  • adjacent strings "abc""def"
  • one or more escaped \" in string, adjacent \"
  • one or more escaped \n in string, adjacent \n