Better QuickCheck/HUnit integration
Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355215 requests:
Quickcheck and HUnit are both great tools for testing software, but it seems to be rather difficult to make them work together. In particular, since the signature of all the quickCheck interface functions is some variant on
Testable a => a -> IO ()the only way to find out whether a test succeeded or failed is to read the terminal output. It would be ideal if !QuickCheck could generate HUnit assertion failures when a test failed (maybe by expanding the Config structure with "failure hooks"), but even just changing its signature to either
Testable a => a -> IO Boolreturning True for success, or (slightly more ambitiously)
Testable a => a -> IO (Maybe String)returning Nothing for success and an error message otherwise would be enough to get basic integration working.
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| Version | 6.6.1 |
| Type | FeatureRequest |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | libraries (other) |
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