QuickChick

Description

• Randomized property-based testing plugin for Coq; a clone of Haskell QuickCheck
• Includes a foundational verification framework for testing code
• Includes a mechanism for automatically deriving generators for inductive relations

For more information on QuickChick, look at the tutorial available under the qc folder of the deep spec summer school: https://github.com/DeepSpec/dsss17

Current release dependencies:

• Branch master:
  • Coq 8.8
  • OCaml >= 4.04.0
  • mathcomp-ssreflect-1.6.4
  • coq-ext-lib-0.9.7

Compilation and Installation (from opam)

# Add the Coq opam repository (if you haven't already)
opam repo add coq-released https://coq.inria.fr/opam/released
opam update
# Install the coq-quickchick opam package
opam install coq-quickchick

Compilation and Installation (from source)

# To get the dependencies, you still need to add the Coq opam repository (if you haven't already)
opam repo add coq-released https://coq.inria.fr/opam/released
opam update
opam install coq-mathcomp-ssreflect coq-ext-lib

# Then:
make && make install

Simple Examples

• examples/Tutorial.v
• examples/RedBlack
• examples/stlc
• examples/ifc-basic

Running make tests in the top-level QuickChick folder will check and execute all of these. If successful, you should see "success" at the end.

Top-level Commands

• QuickCheck c
• Sample g
• Derive Arbitrary for c
• Derive Show for c
• Derive ArbitrarySizedSuchThat for (fun x => p)
• Derive ArbitrarySizedSuchThat for (fun x => let (x1,x2...) := x in p)
• QuickCheckWith args c
• MutateCheck c p
• MutateCheckWith args c p
• MutateCheckMany c ps
• MutateCheckManyWith args c ps

Other tags

• coq 8.4pl6:
  • OCaml 4.01.0 and Coq 8.4pl3 or OCaml 4.02.1 and Coq 8.4pl6
  • SSReflect 1.5 (http://ssr.msr-inria.inria.fr/FTP/)
• coq 8.5-*:
  • Coq 8.5pl2
  • OCaml 4.03.0
  • mathcomp-ssreflect v1.5
  • 8.5-legacy contains the old typeclass hierarchy
  • 8.5-automation contains the new one
• coq 8.6:
  • Coq 8.6
  • OCaml 4.03.0
  • mathcomp-ssreflect-1.6.1

Documentation

The public API of QuickChick is summarized in BasicInterface.v.

The main documentation is the DeepSpec summer school tutorial:

• DeepSpec QC repo. Pretty soon this will become a software foundations volume!

Here is some more reading material:

• Our POPL 2018 paper on Generating Good Generators for Inductive Relations
• Our ITP 2015 paper on Foundational Property-Based Testing
• Leo's invited talk at CLA on Random Testing in the Coq Proof Assistant
• Catalin's internship topic proposals for 2015
• Catalin's presentation at CoqPL 2015 workshop (2015-01-18)
• Zoe's thesis defense at NTU Athens (2014-09-08)
• Maxime's presentation at the Coq Workshop (2014-07-18)
• Catalin's presentation at the Coq Working Group @ PPS (2014-03-19)