hedgehog VS QuickCheck

Compare hedgehog vs QuickCheck and see what are their differences.

hedgehog

Release with confidence, state-of-the-art property testing for Haskell. (by hedgehogqa)

QuickCheck

Automatic testing of Haskell programs. (by nick8325)
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hedgehog QuickCheck
3 1
661 692
0.3% -
6.0 7.7
18 days ago 3 days ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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hedgehog

Posts with mentions or reviews of hedgehog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-03.
  • Monthly Hask Anything (May 2022)
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 3 May 2022
    I've had some PRs open on hedgehog for one and two months respectively. It looks like the maintainer isn't currently very active, which is fair enough. This isn't about criticizing him, and I'm not trying to take over the repo.
  • Monthly Hask Anything (February 2022)
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 1 Feb 2022
    Testing libraries like hedgehog often run tests in parallel, so you may find related issues to work on.
  • Mutation Testing
    5 projects | /r/programming | 13 Apr 2021
    Haskell has QuickCheck and Hedgehog, and dotnet has both as well. F# is favored, but there's C# interop.

QuickCheck

Posts with mentions or reviews of QuickCheck. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-27.
  • Ask HN: Is writing a math proof like programming without ever running your code?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023
    Quickcheck is a Haskell testing library which allows the programmer to write propositions about how a function should behave, and the library will try to find cases which falsify the proposition.

    If my understanding is correct, it can't "prove" any properties, only disprove them.

    For concretely proving properties of a program, you would need something like Idris's dependent type system, where you can prove that a function always returns a sorted list, for example.

    https://github.com/nick8325/quickcheck

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hedgehog and QuickCheck you can also consider the following projects:

quickcheck-arbitrary-adt - Typeclass for generating a list of each instance of a sum type's constructors

hspec - A Testing Framework for Haskell

FsCheck - Random Testing for .NET

HUnit - A unit testing framework for Haskell

smallcheck - Test your Haskell code by exhaustively checking its properties

hspec-wai - Helpers to test WAI applications with Hspec

quickcheck-instances - Instances for QuickCheck classes

quickspec - Equational laws for free

tasty - Modern and extensible testing framework for Haskell

quickcheck-state-machine - Test monadic programs using state machine based models

ghc-prof-flamegraph

fuzzcheck - A library for testing monadic code in the spirit of QuickCheck