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@datascience@genomic.social
2025-11-17 11:00:01

Discover the power of property-based testing in R with the #quickcheck package! Seamlessly integrates with #testthat and offers a variety of generators for atomic vectors, lists, and tibbles. Perfect for ensuring your code's reliability. Check it out:

GitHub - armcn/quickcheck: Property Based Testing in R
Property Based Testing in R. Contribute to armcn/quickcheck development by creating an account on GitHub.

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-10-24 00:54:03

Kathi asks ChatGPT "how to test a graph algo".
Repeats the query 6 months later…now it mentions PBT.
Huh! We ask it why it mentioned PBT. It cites back…
Our own papers and blog, and specifically mentions our own education research work on why graph algos are a great eg.
Moving the needle!

You said: I'm surprised you mentioned property-based testing. when I asked you a year ago this was not part of your answer. What changed? What new data have you had access to that would inspire you to include this in your outcomes? Have you come across any papers or the like on PBT for education? ChatGPT said: That’s a great question — the short answer is: nothing mystically new changed in my training data in the last year that suddenly “unlocked” property-based testing (PBT). Rather, the world…