4: Property-Based Testing

In this episode of expect(Exception), Tobi Timm talks to Roman and Vanessa about property-based testing, how powerful it is, if it has any downsides at all, and which library you can use for Javascript applications. Stay to the end of the episode if you want to know what you could do with your time instead of spending it on writing hundreds of tests manually.

In JavaScript we can use Faker to create sets of input data. But is there a tool for property based testing? There is! While there is QuickCheck for Haskell, Hypothesis for Python, ScalaTest or Scala, fscheck for .NET, junit-quickcheck for Java, and rantly for Ruby, also Javascript has one library to include property-based testing in any Frontend testing tool like Mocha, Jest, Cypress, Playwright: it's fast-check!

Show Notes:

[00:00:00] Intro

[00:01:35] What is property based testing?

[00:03:36] Are there performance issues?

[00:07:23] Factory Functions to create sets of input data

[00:08:54] When and where to use and run property based tests?

[00:12:42] Value provided by property based testing

[00:18:42] Downsides of property based testing

[00:26:21] Fastcheck

[00:34:26] Input data to test against

Picks:

• Tobi: Beard Oil

• Roman: a product analytics tool that's actually convincing to use

• Vanessa: Artificial Intelligence, A Guide for Thinking Humans
  

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