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PBT Resources

This page contains a collection of PBT tutorials and other useful resources for learning PBT techniques. Most, if not all, should be directly translatable to Supposition.jl in one form or another. If you find a new tutorial or resource that helped you test your code with Supposition.jl in some manner, please don't hesitate to open a PR adding the resource here!

  • Property-based Testing For The Rest Of Us (or: The Natural Next Step After TDD) by Arialdo Martini
    • A series of articles explaining property based testing and what problems with regular testing are solved by it. It's an extremely friendly introduction to the topic, so much so that I'd recommend just following along with the examples there and playing around with the concepts in Supposition.jl.
  • The purpose of Hypothesis by David R. MacIver

    • [...], the larger purpose of Hypothesis is to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new and terrifying age of high quality software.

  • Hypothesis testing with Oracle functions by Hillel Wayne
    • A blogpost about using existing (but slower/partially incorrect) implementations to make sure a refactored or new implementation still conforms to all expected contracts of the old implementation.
  • Solving the Water Jug Problem from Die Hard 3 with TLA+ and Hypothesis by Nicholas Chammas
    • A blogpost about helping out John McClane (Bruce Willis) and Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) ~defuse a bomb~ solve fun children's games.
    • This blogpost has been translated to Supposition.jl! Check it out in the examples.
  • Rule Based Stateful Testing by David R. MacIver
    • A blogpost from the main developer behind Hypothesis, showing how to test stateful systems with Hypothesis.
    • This blogpost has been translated to Supposition.jl! Check it out in the examples.
      • Note: Not all features of Hypothesis have been ported to Supposition.jl, in particular the UX for stateful testing is very bare bones. The linked example contains a very manual implementation of the features utilized by Hypothesis for much the same thing, but should be easily adaptable for all kinds of stateful tests.
  • Proprty Testing Stateful Code in Rust by Raphael Gashignard
    • A blogpost about fuzzing internal datastructures of nushell using PBT and the Rust library proptest.
  • Automate Your Way to Better Code: Advanced Property Testing (with Oskar Wickström) by Kris Jenkins from Developer Voices

    • My Job as a programmer is to be lazy in the smart way - I see that many unit tests, and I just want to automate the problem away. Well that's the promise of property testing - write a bit of code that describes the shape of your software, and it will go away and create 10_000 unit tests to see if you're right, if it actually does work that way. [..] we're also going to address my biggest disappointment so far with property testing: which is that it only seems to work in theory. It's great for textbook examples, I'm sold on the principle, but I've struggled to make it work on my more gnarly real world code.

    • This is an absolutely delightful listen! A nice definition of what property based testing is, as well as a lot of discussion on how to start out with property based testing and continue with the approach onto more difficult pastures. Don't let yourself be intimidated by the length - take your time with this one, it's well worth it!
  • The Magic of Property Testing by Kris Jenkins from Developer Voices
    • This is a followup to "Automate Your Way to Better Code", showcasing an example of property based testing in PureScript. The fuzzing framework used here is a port of QuickCheck, but the general flow should be translatable to Supposition.jl. One feature being showcased (generation of objects through reflection) is not yet available in Supposition.jl; see this discussion for the state of things. Nevertheless, even without that, the generation capabilities of random data in Supposition.jl are just as powerful.