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

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