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Jessica Kerr was discussing property-based testing (i.e. quickcheck, scalacheck) on a podcast recently, and I thought it was interesting she noted that the red-green-refactor cycle didn't make as much sense with property-based testing.

It's more "contemplative" - thinking about invariants of your software rather than designing for mocks and various injected components.

(although property-based testing is a bit less effective in languages that don't make type information available, to generate the input values)





yep! Although it's kind of a weird dynamic going on - the host gets defensive at times, getting a sense these two were grating on each other a little bit. Always enjoy the things Jessica has to say though.




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