Inspection Testing by Joachim Breitner may be of interest: 
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07130

> On Oct 25, 2019, at 5:34 PM, Alexis King <lexi.lam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 25, 2019, at 04:07, Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> 
>> |  I’ve noticed that Specialise.hs has handful of pprTrace calls sprinkled
>> |  about, but they are all commented out. Is the recommended method to just
>> |  uncomment these calls and rebuild GHC?
>> 
>> That's what I do.
> 
> Thanks, I did indeed end up doing this, and it was enough to diagnose my 
> problem.
> 
>> But it would be better to stand back a bit and ask "what information would I 
>> really like to see?" and then design some logging mechanism to show it.  I'd 
>> be happy to advise.
> 
> It would be nice to have a -dspecialise-check in the same vein as the 
> existing -dinline-check/-drule-check flags, which seems probably not too hard 
> to add. I unfortunately can’t dedicate the time to add it myself right now, 
> as I’ve solved my immediate problem and probably already sunk more time into 
> this than I ought to, but if it comes up again and I can spare the time I 
> might give it a shot.
> 
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