package qcheck-core

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Runners for Tests

Once you built some tests using QCheck.Test.make, you need to run the tests. This module contains several runners, which are designed to run every test and report the result.

By default, you can use run_tests in a test program as follows:

let testsuite = [
  Test.make ...;
  Test.make ...;
]

let () =
  let errcode = QCheck_runners.run_tests ~verbose:true testsuite in
  exit errcode

which will run the tests, and exit the program. The error code will be 0 if all tests pass, 1 otherwise.

run_tests_main can be used as a shortcut for that, also featuring command-line parsing (using Arg) to activate verbose mode and others.

State

val random_state : unit -> Random.State.t

Access the current random state

val verbose : unit -> bool

Is the default mode verbose or quiet?

val long_tests : unit -> bool

Is the default mode to run long tests or nor?

val set_seed : int -> unit

Change the random_state by creating a new one, initialized with the given seed.

val set_verbose : bool -> unit

Change the value of verbose ()

val set_long_tests : bool -> unit

Change the value of long_tests ()

val get_time_between_msg : unit -> float

Get the minimum time to wait between printing messages.

  • since 0.9
val set_time_between_msg : float -> unit

Set the minimum tiem between messages.

  • since 0.9

Run a Suite of Tests and Get Results

val run_tests : ?colors:bool -> ?verbose:bool -> ?long:bool -> ?out:out_channel -> ?rand:Random.State.t -> QCheck.Test.t list -> int

Run a suite of tests, and print its results. This is an heritage from the "qcheck" library.

  • returns

    an error code, 0 if all tests passed, 1 otherwise.

  • parameter colors

    if true, colorful output

  • parameter verbose

    if true, prints more information about test cases

val run_tests_main : ?argv:string array -> QCheck.Test.t list -> 'a

Can be used as the main function of a test file. Exits with a non-0 code if the tests fail. It refers to run_tests for actually running tests after CLI options have been parsed.

The available options are:

  • "--verbose" (or "-v") for activating verbose tests
  • "--seed <n>" (or "-s <n>") for repeating a previous run by setting the random seed
  • "--long" for running the long versions of the tests

Below is an example of the output of the run_tests and run_tests_main function:

random seed: 438308050
generated  error;  fail; pass / total -     time -- test name
[✓] (1000)    0 ;    0 ; 1000 / 1000 --     0.5s -- list_rev_is_involutive
[✗] (   1)    0 ;    1 ;    0 /   10 --     0.0s -- should_fail_sort_id
[✗] (   1)    1 ;    0 ;    0 /   10 --     0.0s -- should_error_raise_exn
[✓] (1000)    0 ;    0 ; 1000 / 1000 --     0.0s -- collect_results

--- Failure --------------------------------------------------------------------

Test should_fail_sort_id failed (11 shrink steps):

[1; 0]

=== Error ======================================================================

Test should_error_raise_exn errored on (62 shrink steps):

0

exception QCheck_runner_test.Error
Raised at file "example/QCheck_runner_test.ml", line 20, characters 20-25
Called from file "src/QCheck.ml", line 839, characters 13-33


+++ Collect ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Collect results for test collect_results:

4: 207 cases
3: 190 cases
2: 219 cases
1: 196 cases
0: 188 cases

================================================================================
failure (1 tests failed, 1 tests errored, ran 4 tests)
module Color : sig ... end
module Raw : sig ... end
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