Nice. Any updates on this?
Is this a good idea?

On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 12:13:06 PM UTC+5:30, Mikera wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am doing some generative testing with test.check and need a way to 
> control the growth rate of data structures (the regular linear growth 
> quickly makes the computations too large for meaningful testing usage). I 
> came up with the following solution to do this:
>
> (defn gen-resize 
>   "Creates a generator that pre-modifies the 'size' pramater with the 
> function f. Use if you want to 
>    have the size grow at a different rate from the normal linear scaling."
>   ([f gen]
>     (let [gf (or (:gen gen) "gen paramter must be a test.check generator")
>           new-gf (fn [rnd size]
>                    (gf rnd (f size)))]
>       (clojure.test.check.generators.Generator. new-gf))))
>
> Normal O(n) growth:
>
> (gen/sample gen/s-pos-int 30)
> => (1 2 3 2 4 5 4 7 6 3 3 7 10 4 8 11 14 12 6 10 9 1 8 21 12 16 25 25 21 6)
>
> Controlled O(sqrt(n)) growth:
>
> (gen/sample (gen-resize sqrt gen/s-pos-int) 30)
> => (1 2 2 2 2 4 3 3 3 3 4 3 5 1 2 3 2 4 4 2 2 3 6 6 2 5 5 4 6 3)
>
> So.... it seems to work, but is this a sane / recommended approach? Am I 
> relying too much on test.check internals?
>
>   mikera
>

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