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Scala Test-Driven Development
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Scala Test-Driven Development

by Gaurav Sood
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
198 pages
3h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 7.  Property-Based Testing

Sometimes, to make our tests exhaustive, we need to test against as many of the test cases as possible. Writing a test for each testable input obviously cannot be the answer. Property-based testing framework executes the same test over and over with generated input. This can easily be contrasted with the traditional example-based testing, which has a unit test depicting a sample scenario with test data that is descriptive of that scenario. This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Property-based testing
  • Table-driven property checks
  • Generator-driven property checks
  • ScalaCheck

Introduction to property-based testing

In modern software development gauge, tests are the measure of the quality of your software. It is ...

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