[Haskell-cafe] Zero-arity tests in QuickCheck and displaying expected result

Lennart Augustsson lennart at augustsson.net
Mon Apr 16 17:11:57 EDT 2007


Why can't you just do 'f 1 2 3 == (4, 5, 6, 7)' to test f?

On Apr 16, 2007, at 22:08 , Joel Reymont wrote:

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> On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
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>> It's interesting to note that QuickCheck generalises unit testing:
>> zero-arity QC properties are exactly unit tests.
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> I don't think this works very well. I rely quite heavily on being  
> able to compare expected output with test results and QC does not  
> seem to provide for this feature when tests are zero arity.
>
> Am I missing something?
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> 	Thanks, Joel
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