doublecheck 0.1pre2012-05-08T10-05-14

Pythonic library for QuickCheck-style randomized testing and SmallCheck-style exhaustive testing of the same test suite.

A library for property-based testing in two different ways:

1. “QuickCheck” - randomly generated inputs

2. “SmallCheck” - exhaustively enumerated inputs

These testing approaches are named for the pioneering Haskell libraries. The two approaches truly shine when used together - once a property is found to be refutable by some probably-huge-and-crazy random input, it is often worth investing the CPU time to find the _smallest_ counterexample.

This library is a brand new work-in-progress (see commit log for dates) with known issues:

• Does not have randomly generated strings just yet.

• No existential quantification yet, but smallcheck does allow it!

• Needs more thorough testing.

• Needs to be able to test that a property always throws an exception.

• Needs lots more combinators.

• Needs one-liner interface rather than checking status of test cases.

Installation & Usage

(TODO: Describe in more detail. For now, read doublecheck/gen.py and doublecheck/prop.py)

$ pip install doublecheck $ python >>> from doublecheck import * >>> ForAll(lambda i: i > 0, PosInts()).quickcheck(100000).status ‘Certain’

Further Reading & Related Projects

The original libraries.

• [QuickCheck]() ([mirrored on github](https://github.com/darcs-mirrors/QuickCheck) if you’d like to fork it)

• [SmallCheck and Lazy SmallCheck](http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/smallcheck/) ([also on github](https://github.com/feuerbach/smallcheck))

There are also already a few python libraries inspired by QuickCheck. None seem to take the approach of a full port, and certainly none include SmallCheck-style exhaustive testing.

• [PayCheck](https://github.com/markchadwick/paycheck)

• [qc.py](https://github.com/dbravender/qc)

Essentially every language has multiple implementations. Here are some that I think are worth checking out.

• [ScalaCheck](https://github.com/rickynils/scalacheck) (Scala)

• [jsqc](https://github.com/sakari/jsqc) (JavaScript)

• [QueenCheck](https://github.com/rosylilly/QueenCheck) (Ruby)

• [Rantly](https://github.com/hayeah/rantly) (Ruby)

• [Triq](https://github.com/krestenkrab/triq) (Erlang)

Copyright & License

Copyright 2012- Kenneth Knowles

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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