Final year CO600 group project. This is a tool for the visual breakdown and translation of regular expressions and finite state automata.
- Matthew Nicholls mjn33@kent.ac.uk
- Samuel Pengelly sp611@kent.ac.uk
- Parham Ghassemi pg272@kent.ac.uk
- Billy Dix wrd2@kent.ac.uk
The project code can be found under the regexp_vis directory and miscellaneous
tools and scripts under tools. Project management documentation was previously
under a directory called doc, this has been erased from the Git history. A
user guide can be found under regexp_vis/res/userguide.
regexp_vis is further subdivided into modules. The project follows a
Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture design pattern, model and view are
designed to not depend on any other modules, the controller package acts as
the "glue" between the model and view packages. Accompanying unit tests are
in packages test.model, test.view, and test.controller.
We have also retained some demo code written to test the Jython programming
language, as we initially considered using that language so that we could
utilise libraries and syntactic sugar from both Java and Python. This demo can
be found under the jython_test directory.
- Apache Ant
- JDK 8+ (including JavaFX)
Use ant jar in the regexp_vis directory to build the project and generate an
executable jar file. The program can then be run by executing the jar ant run
or java -jar dist/{jarname}.jar.
The project includes a number of unit tests that can be compiled and run by
executing the command ant runtests in the regexp_vis directory. This will
generate HTML-formatted test results under the directory testreports.
This project is licenced under the MIT / X11 licence, a copy can be found in the LICENSE file.
This project includes JARs for hamcrest-core-1.3 and junit-4.12 and their sources.
The JARs and their licenses can be found under regexp-vis/regexp_vis/lib.