[plt-dev] random testing, we need to do more of this

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Michael Sperber
<sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
>
> Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Michael Sperber
>> <sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
>>> I'll point out that a quite complete port of the original QuickCheck is
>>> sitting in the deinprogramm/quickcheck collection.  I wrote it for our
>>> teaching languages (where feedback indicates it's a success), but it's
>>> by no means restricted to that.
>>
>> For the sake of completeness, there is also fasttest on Planet.
>
> Right.  But note that it's different from QuickCheck: It features a
> bunch of procedures that generate random values of various types,
> whereas QuickCheck is a combinator library for generators.  That comes
> into play with compound generators - such as generators for procedures.

FastTest is also a combinator library.  For instance, it has higher
order generators for lists and s-expressions.  If there's a useful set
of generators that it's missing, I'm happy to take feature requests.

--Carl