Re: [Haskell-cafe] QuickCheck-like tests with GHC.Generic, deriving

Alexander Solla writes:
I am looking for a QuickCheck-like test framework which exposes data generators (like QuickCheck's Arbitrary class) with Generic defaults.
I have seen that SmallCheck's Serial class has Generic defaults, but it isn't particularly good for my purpose (I'd like to use the generator to populate deeply nested data types, and SmallCheck's generator requires computing a few million values before I get any interesting ones) Something "random" would be more useful for my purpose.
I know that the plan depends on my vaguely abusing the test-case generator, but I plan on doing some testing anyway, so I figured I should reuse the instance.
That said, I'd be willing to use any random value type class with Generic-default instances.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
I think what you want is: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/testing-feat See also the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2430532.2364515 Specifically, the technique solves the "populate deeply nested data types" issue. You can efficiently jump to the so-and-so-many-millionth value in the enumeration without having to create all smaller values. Best, Janis.
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Janis Voigtlaender