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Brian Marick on Twitter: "I've been a grump about property-based testing be...
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I've been a grump about property-based testing because I bought into the conclusion of Hamlet&Taylor's 1990 "Partition testing does not inspire confidence", http://site.uottawa.ca/~gvj/papers/Software%20Engineering%20IEEE%20Transactions%20on%201990%20Hamlet.pdf…
Have any property-testing people engaged with that argument? It's time for my mind to be changed.
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, he raises a good point about the Hamlet&Taylor paper:
https://twitter.com/johanneslink/status/1375681159166881793…
I expand on my interpretation of that paper's connection to property-based testing in my replies.
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Johannes Link
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· Mar 27
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Just reading the abstract it seems the paper provides an argument FOR Property-based Testing since random sampling is a major part of it.
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Just reading the abstract it seems the paper provides an argument FOR Property-based Testing since random sampling is a major part of it.
Their simulation results were that dividing the input space into partitions and then sampling within those partitions didn't do better than sampling within the entire input space, *unless*...
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Ah damn I knew I forgot something from those weeks in a Covid haze !!! I forgot to answer you on PBT on that discussion of weeks ago !!!!
Well, I forgot too, and I don't even have an excuse.
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