Lesson 41. Property-based testing in F#
This lesson presents a different type of automated testing that you can do in F#, called property-based testing (PBT). You’ll see
- What PBT is
- Why you might want to use it
- How to use the FsCheck library for .NET
- How to integrate FsCheck with popular test runners
At times, even if you’ve achieved “full test coverage”—where your tests are covering every branch of code in the system—you still might not be satisfied with your tests. Here are a few examples.
One common problem occurs when your code misses edge cases that you hadn’t considered. This is common when working with strings or other “unbounded” inputs. How many times have you written code that expects a string to be a certain minimum length, but ...
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