Property-Based Testing with PropEr in Elixir
Intermediate
88 Lessons
17h 30min
Certificate of Completion
Takeaway Skills
Understand the concepts of PropEr.
Understand the role of generators in property in property-based testing.
Have a clear sense where property-based testing has an advantage over Eunit tests and vice versa.
Be able to use stateful properties with ease.
Learn how to write State Machine Properties.
Understand property-based testing
Course Overview
Property-based testing relies on specifying some property of code, unlike unit tests, which specify the expected output in response to some inputs. In this course, we'll cover the concepts we need to feel confident about using even the most advanced features of PropEr with Elixir. We'll start with the basic and foundational principles of property-based testing, see what the framework offers us to get started, make our way through thinking in properties, write our own custom data generators, and then learn ...Show More
Course Content
Foundations of Property-Based Testing
Writing Properties
Thinking in Properties
Custom Generators
Responsible Testing
Properties-Driven Development
9 Lessons
Shrinking
5 Lessons
Stateful Properties
8 Lessons
Case Study: Bookstore
11 Lessons
State Machine Properties
11 Lessons
Conclusion
1 Lesson
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