On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 15:25 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > Another good idea when you have a pretty version which is easy to > verify for correctness and an ugly version that is harder to verify is > to use QuickCheck or SmallCheck and define a property that says both > versions are equal for all inputs. Ugly code is notorious for holding > bugs, but doing this would help test the ugly code.
This is exactly how we tested Data.ByteString and to great effect I think. We uncovered loads of bugs during testing. The few bugs uncovered by our users since it has been released have invariably been in things we didn't have QC properties for. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
