Create test cases from problem-specification's canonical-data using template?

[lathspell]

The Python track has a nice bin/generate_tests.py that reads the exercism/problem-specification/exercises/$NAME/canonical-data.json and uses exercises/$NAME/.meta/template.j2 to generate the test script exercises/$NAME/$NAME_test.py.

I would like to see such a mechanism in the Kotlin track as well. So far I wrote a hand full of Kotlin test cases for my previous pull requests just by modifying the Python template.j2 and it worked very well. Especially exercises with 20+ test cases and long descriptions are pain.

Extra points of that script warns if the .meta/version differs from the problem spec and optionally creates/updates version, tests, README.md as needed.

Any thoughts? In case someone would be willing to implement it, where should it go, to configlet, bin/, scripts/, a Gradle task?

[fahadhk]

can you share any information about this. I have an open PR #483 where I can use your experience.