smallcheck: A property-based testing library

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SmallCheck is a testing library that allows to verify properties for all test cases up to some depth. The test cases are generated automatically by SmallCheck.


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Dependencies base (>=4.5 && <5), ghc-prim (>=0.2), logict (>=0.5), mtl (<2.3), pretty [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Colin Runciman, Roman Cheplyaka
Maintainer Roman Cheplyaka <roma@ro-che.info>
Revised Revision 3 made by Bodigrim at 2023-06-22T19:35:53Z
Category Testing
Home page https://github.com/feuerbach/smallcheck
Bug tracker https://github.com/feuerbach/smallcheck/issues
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/feuerbach/smallcheck.git
Uploaded by RomanCheplyaka at 2013-12-16T17:06:54Z
Distributions Arch:1.2.1.1, Debian:1.1.7, Fedora:1.2.1.1, FreeBSD:1.1.1, LTSHaskell:1.2.1.1, NixOS:1.2.1.1, Stackage:1.2.1.1
Reverse Dependencies 25 direct, 146 indirect [details]
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SmallCheck: a property-based testing library for Haskell

SmallCheck is a testing library that allows to verify properties for all test cases up to some depth. The test cases are generated automatically by SmallCheck.

Usefulness of such an approach to testing is based on the following observation:

If a program fails to meet its specification in some cases, it almost always fails in some simple case.

To get started with SmallCheck: