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Mastering Elixir
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Mastering Elixir

by André Albuquerque, Daniel Caixinha
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
574 pages
14h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Property-based testing

We will conclude this chapter by talking about an exciting new way of testing: property-based testing. We say new because this type of testing has been used for a long time in the Erlang and Haskell communities (and possibly others), and is now making its way into the Elixir community. At the time of this writing, there are strong indications that property-based testing will be part of the core of Elixir, supposedly shipping with Elixir in version 1.7. Particularly, the library that we'll be using in our examples later on (stream_data) will be merged to Elixir itself. It's still unclear how this will be done, and if the API of the library will change. Nevertheless, by reading this and checking out the examples, you'll ...

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