qcheck 0.8 · OCaml Package

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 ()

Conversion of tests to OUnit Tests

val to_ounit_test : 
  ?verbose:bool ->
  ?long:bool ->
  ?rand:Random.State.t ->
  QCheck.Test.t ->
  OUnit.test

to_ounit_test ~rand t wraps t into a OUnit test

parameter verbose
used to print information on stdout (default: verbose())

parameter rand
the random generator to use (default: random_state ())

val to_ounit_test_cell : 
  ?verbose:bool ->
  ?long:bool ->
  ?rand:Random.State.t ->
  _ QCheck.Test.cell ->
  OUnit.test

Same as to_ounit_test but with a polymorphic test cell

val (>:::) : string -> QCheck.Test.t list -> OUnit.test

Same as OUnit.>::: but with a list of QCheck tests

val to_ounit2_test : ?rand:Random.State.t -> QCheck.Test.t -> OUnit2.test

to_ounit2_test ?rand t wraps t into a OUnit2 test

parameter rand
the random generator to use (default: a static seed for reproducibility), can be overridden with "-seed" on the command-line

val to_ounit2_test_list : 
  ?rand:Random.State.t ->
  QCheck.Test.t list ->
  OUnit2.test list

to_ounit2_test_list ?rand t like to_ounit2_test but for a list of tests

OUnit runners

val run : ?argv:string array -> OUnit.test -> int

run test runs the test, and returns an error code that is 0 if all tests passed, 1 otherwise. This is the default runner used by the comment-to-test generator.

parameter argv
the command line arguments to parse parameters from (default Sys.argv)

raises Arg.Bad
in case argv contains unknown arguments

raises Arg.Help

in case argv contains "--help"

This test runner displays execution in a compact way, making it good for suites that have lots of tests.

Output example:

random seed: 101121210
random seed: 101121210
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Error: tests>error_raise_exn

test `error_raise_exn` raised exception `QCheck_ounit_test.Error`
on `0 (after 62 shrink steps)`
Raised at file "example/QCheck_ounit_test.ml", line 19, characters 20-25
Called from file "src/QCheck.ml", line 846, characters 13-33

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Failure: tests>fail_sort_id

fail_sort_id
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Ran: 4 tests in: 0.74 seconds.
WARNING! SOME TESTS ARE NEITHER SUCCESSES NOR FAILURES!

val run_tap : OUnit.test -> OUnit.test_results

TAP-compatible test runner, in case we want to use a test harness. It prints one line per test.

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)

package qcheck

Runners for Tests

State

Conversion of tests to OUnit Tests

OUnit runners

Run a Suite of Tests and Get Results