Meetings

Aug
15
This Monday at 7pm we're pleased to announce we have another talk by Lee Kitching, this time on Property Based Testing a Regex Processor in F# with FsCheck.

Traditional unit testing requires the programmer to manually generate test cases, which are highly specific but give poor coverage of the range of possible inputs.

Property-based testing is used to specify the behaviour of programs and assert the adherence of the implementation to the specification by randomly exploring the input space.

This talk introduces property-based testing FsCheck, an F# port of Quickcheck. The API will be introduced before being demonstrated in development of a simple regular expression engine, and used to check invariants for data structures.