RTest, a random testing framework

[BCS]

Reply to Bruce,

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:30:58 +0100, Fawzi Mohamed <fmohamed at mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> = RTest
>> == RTest a random testing framework
>> I wrote a framework to quickly write tests that check
>> property/functions
>> using randomly generated data or all combinations of some values
>> (full
>> coverage).
>> This was inspired by Haskell's Quickcheck, but the result is quite
>> different.
> Personally I don't like the idea of randomly generated test cases.
> Test
> cases need to
> be deterministic and repeatable otherwise you don't have much chance
> of
> tracking
> down problems when your tests fail. That said, automatically
> generating
> test cases
> from a deterministic pseudo-random number generator might still have
> its
> uses.
> It might be idea to add something that checks you have sufficient
> coverage
> of
> the range/domain's involved statistically speaking.
> Regards,
> 
> Bruce.
> 

I think there was something in the OP about dumping the entropy needed to 
reproduce failed test cases.

As to checking the domain, My proposal might be of use there as it could 
explicitly define the edges (where most of the interesting stuff happens) 
and then concentrate checks there.