[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] [ANN] GenCheck - a generalized property-based testing framework

[Jonas Almström Duregård]

HI Jacques,

This looks very similar to the recently released testing-feat library:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/testing-feat-0.2

I get a build error on the latest platform:

Test\GenCheck\Base\LabelledPartition.lhs:126:3:
    The equation(s) for `new' have two arguments,
    but its type `[a] -> Map k a' has only one
    In the instance declaration for `LabelledPartition (Map k) a'

Regards,
Jonas


On 19 June 2012 17:04, Jacques Carette <carette at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Test.GenCheck is a Haskell library for generalized proposition-based
> testing. It simultaneously generalizes QuickCheck and SmallCheck.
>
> Its main novel features are:
>
> introduces a number of testing strategies and strategy combinators
> introduces a variety of test execution methods
> guarantees uniform sampling (at each rank) for the random strategy
> guarantees both uniqueness and coverage of all structures for the exhaustive
> strategy
> introduces an extreme strategy for testing unbalanced structures
> also introduces a uniform strategy which does uniform sampling along an
> enumeration
> allows different strategies to be mixed; for example one can exhaustively
> test all binary trees up to a certain size, filled with random integers.
> complete separation between properties, generators, testing strategies and
> test execution methods
>
> The package is based on a lot of previous research in combinatorics
> (combinatorial enumeration of structures and the theory of Species), as well
> as a number of established concepts in testing (from a software engineering
> perspective). In other words, further to the features already implemented in
> this first release, the package contains an extensible, general framework
> for generators, test case generation and management. It can also be very
> easily generalized to cover many more combinatorial structures unavailable
> as Haskell types.
>
> The package also provides interfaces for different levels of usage. In other
> words, there is a 'simple' interface for dealing with straightforward
> testing, a 'medium' interface for those who want to explore different
> testing strategies, and an 'advanced' interface for access to the full power
> of GenCheck.
>
> See http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gencheck for further details.
>
> In the source repository (https://github.com/JacquesCarette/GenCheck), the
> file tutorial/reverse/TestReverseList.lhs shows the simplest kinds of tests
> (standard and deep for structures, or base for unstructured types) and
> reporting (checking, testing and full report) for the classical list reverse
> function. The files in tutorial/list_zipper show what can be done with the
> medium level interface (this tutorial is currently incomplete). The brave
> user can read the source code of the package for the advanced usage -- but
> we'll write a tutorial for this too, later.
>
> User beware: this is gencheck-0.1, there are still a few rough edges.  We
> plan to add a Template Haskell feature to this which should make deriving
> enumerators automatic for version 0.2.
>
> Jacques and Gordon
>
>
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