QuickCheck properties for IntSet

[Don Stewart]

igloo:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:35:45PM -0700, David Benbennick wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
> > >  I believe that a much smaller number of carefully chosen unit tests could test the library just as
> > >  well
> > 
> > I think that if you remove any of the properties from my patch, I can
> > break the implementation of IntSet in such a way that it still passes
> > all the tests.
> 
> I don't mean that any of your QC tests were redundant, what I mean is
> that QC runs your tests with redundant values.
> 
> > Anyway, the new QuickCheck properties are just
> > comments, so they don't have any affect on the test suite.
> 
> I don't think there is much benefit in having the tests if we aren't
> going to run them. People making changes to the library will probably
> forget to check that they pass (or not know that they exist), and the
> tests will probably bitrot due to changes in other libraries etc.

So I don't know what is being decided here?

No QuickCheck properties for the containers library because Ian doesn't
believe in them? Or ..?

-- Don