diff --git a/src/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/JavaTXParser.java b/src/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/JavaTXParser.java
index 800a05374..b620f33e6 100644
--- a/src/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/JavaTXParser.java
+++ b/src/de/dhbwstuttgart/parser/JavaTXParser.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import org.antlr.v4.runtime.ANTLRInputStream;
 import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CommonTokenStream;
 
 import java.io.*;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -40,4 +41,8 @@ public class JavaTXParser {
     public SourceFile parse(File file) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
         return this.parse(new FileInputStream(file));
     }
+
+    public SourceFile parse(String fileContent) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
+        return this.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(fileContent.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
+    }
 }