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You can either use the @example decorator to force Hypothesis to check an edge case you've thought of, or just let Hypothesis uncover the edge cases itself. Hyp
by movpasd 11mo ago
You can either use the @example decorator to force Hypothesis to check an edge case you've thought of, or just let Hypothesis uncover the edge cases itself. Hypothesis won't fail a test once and then pass it next time, it keeps track of which examples failed and will re-run them. The generated inputs aren't uniformly randomly distributed and will tend to check pathological cases (complex symbols, NaNs, etc) with priority.
You shouldn't think of Hypothesis as a random input generator but as an abstraction over thinking about the input cases. It's not perfect: you'll often need to .map() to get the distribution to reflect the usage of the interface being tested and that requires some knowledge of the shrinking behaviour. However, I was really surprised how easy it was to use.