Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : rapidcheck * URL : https://github.com/emil-e/rapidcheck * License : BSD 2-clause Programming Lang: C++ Description : RapidCheck is a C++ framework for property based testing inspired by QuickCheck and other similar frameworks.
RapidCheck is a C++ framework for property based testing inspired by QuickCheck and other similar frameworks. In property based testing, you state facts about your code that given certain precondition should always be true. RapidCheck then generates random test data to try and find a case for which the property doesn't hold. If such a case is found, RapidCheck tries to find the smallest case (for some definition of smallest) for which the property is still false and then displays this as a counterexample. For example, if the input is an integer, RapidCheck tries to find the smallest integer for which the property is false. It helps in software testing and thereby has the potential to make (C++) programs more robust. It has recently been integrated into bitcoin [1] but one of the maintainers noticed it hasn't been packaged for Debian [2]. This bug hopes to fix that. [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12775 [2] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12775#issuecomment-417618765
