@hackage quickcheck-property-comb0.1.0.1

quickcheck-property-comb

These are combinators, based on the Reader and Writer Monads, to allow for fast and painless Quickcheck property/invariant construction.

Why?

Quickcheck is a tool used to test cases based on constructed Properties, or essentially functions taking a data structure and returning a boolean True or False.

However when running tests, the only way to document their failing case is through labeling them after binding, e.g.:

inv1, inv2, inv3 :: Foo -> Bool 
..
fooInvariants :: Foo -> Property 
fooInvariants f = 
    conjoin . map property $ 
      conjoin $ zipWith toLabeled
        ["foo should be even", "foo should contain 3 bar", "all bar should not equal foo"] 
        [inv1 f, inv2 f, inv3 f]

This gets unwieldy fast as the complexity of the data-structure increases, so quickcheck-property-comb provides the following:

• Monadically unifies composition of invariants and the documenting of those invariants for determining cause of failure.
• Effective diagnostics for invariants with changing post-conditions, leading to faster cause-of-failure diagnosis.

Example use

data (Ord l) => QuantityConsumers l =
  QuantityConsumers {
    atQuantity :: S.Set l,
    qcMet :: M.Map (S.Set l) Bool,
    qcDisjoints :: Disjoints l
  }

disjoint_sizes ::  Inv (Disjoints l)
disjoint_sizes = do
  doc . unlines $
    [
     "the intersection of all at quantity and disjoints are the only allowed",
     "singleton sets in disjoints"
    ]
  disjoints <- cause 
  -- Do some checking on disjoints 
  return False

disjoints_eq :: Inv (Disjoints l)
disjoints_eq = do
  doc "the solution state domain and sets formed by partition are equal"
  ..
  return False

disjoints :: Invariants (Disjoints l)
disjoints = do
  sat disjoints_eq
  sat disjoints_sizes

at_quantity_in_disjoint :: Inv (QuantityConsumers l)
at_quantity_in_disjoint = do
  doc "all at quantity are a singleton subset in disjoints"

  subsets       <- (map S.singleton) . S.toList . atQuantity <$> cause
  disjoint_sets <- fromDisjoints <$>  cause

  return . and . map ((flip S.member) disjoint_sets) $ subsets

inv_quantity_consumers :: Invariants (QuantityConsumers l)
inv_quantity_consumers = do
  satcomp qcDisjoints disjoints
  sat at_quantity_in_disjoint

-- Then to create the final property
prop_quantity_consumers :: QuantityConsumers l -> Property
prop_quantity_consumers q = runInvariants q inv_quantity_consumers