Novak: Very cool. Can qcheck automatically figure out a way to generate the arbitrary data types needed as input for the property/testee? Or did I read that wrong?

Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker
www.yellosoft.us

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Martin Nowak <dawg@dawgfoto.de> wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:17:56 +0200, bearophile <bearophileHUGS@lycos.com> wrote:

Andrew Pennebaker:

The D version will be called dashcheck<https://github.com/mcandre/dashcheck>

QuickCheck is one of the good things of Haskell.

I have raised the topic few times:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/QuickCheck-like_in_Phobos_131256.html
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Re_Unit_Testing_for_D_._72154.html

I remember someone has already written one or two D versions of QuickCheck-like (probably D1), but it didn't get a lot of interest in the D newsgroups. One of them:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=73949

Bye,
bearophile

I wrote a pretty complete port of Haskell's Quickcheck some month ago.
https://github.com/dawgfoto/qcheck
The main function quickcheck takes the testee as first template parameter
and a bunch of policies. It will use getArbitraryTuple to construct the parameters
of the testee. It should be able to construct a random instance of any type out of the box,
but you can also pass generators with the policies and they will be used instead.
There is also a Policy RandomizeMembers which will set aggregate members to random values
after construction.
The testee might return a boolean result or an enum QCheckResult which has a third entry
QCheckResult.Reject.

martin