fast-check with Nicolas DUBIEN

The Developers' Bakery

Time for a new episode of The Developers’ Bakery! Today we’re back talking about testing, but we’ll have the opportunity to learn a new approach we haven’t talked about in this podcast yet: Property Based Testing.

Joining us today is Nicolas DUBIEN, creator of fast-check, a library to write property-based tests for TypeScript and JavaScript.

Nicolas will guide us through the world of property-based testing, explaining how fast-check can help us to write tests that are offering better coverage of our code.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro
• 00.45 Episode Start
• 01.09 Nicolas’ Introduction
• 02.17 What is fast-check?
• 03.41 Property based testing
• 05.36 Generating inputs
• 08.57 Who can use fast-check?
• 11.11 Real world usages
• 14.22 fast-check to test fast-check
• 18.25 Readability of tests
• 20.43 Onboarding on property-based testing
• 22.57 The fast-check ecosystem
• 25.51 The history of fast-check
• 29.58 Who’s maintaining fast-check?
• 32.12 Growing fast-check
• 33.01 Good first issues
• 35.18 What’s next for fast-check?
• 39.50 Further reading
• 41.38 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• dubzzz/fast-check on GitHub
• fast-check Official Website
• fast-check Blog
• @dubzzz on GitHub
• @ndubien on Twitter

Show links

• Podcast Website
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• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter