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Haskell High Performance Programming
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Haskell High Performance Programming

by Samuli Thomasson
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
9h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Testing and benchmarking

The libraries in this subsection are as follows:

  • QuickCheck: Property-checking with automatic test-case generation
  • doctest: Writing tests and expected results directly in haddock comments
  • HSpec, HUnit, tasty: Traditional unit-testing libraries
  • criterion: Benchmarking time usage
  • weigh: Benchmark allocation

There are two testing libraries that are rather novel in Haskell: QuickCheck and doctest. QuickCheck lets the programmer just state a property for a function, leaving it to the library to try proving it false.

Doctest builds on the ingenious idea of combining test cases with docstrings. It's especially useful in libraries, because it gives users reading the documentation always up-to-date information about properties and use ...

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