I'd like to better understand the principles behind the 'size' parameter. Looking at quickCheckWithResult [1], its computation seems to be somewhat non-trivial, or even arbitrary. As far as I understand it, the size is varied throughout tests, increasing from small to larger values. I see two main purposes:

- Test on smaller as well as larger values. But with generators having proper distribution of values, this should happen anyway, just as if we had a constant, larger 'size' parameter.

- Starting with smaller sizes allows to find smaller count-examples first. But with shrinking, it doesn't matter that much, big counter-examples are shrunk to smaller ones anyway in most cases.

So is this parameter actually necessary? Would anything change considerably if it was dropped?

Thanks,

Petr

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck-2.11.3/docs/src/Test-QuickCheck-Test.html#quickCheckWithResult