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Property-based testing

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, property-based testing means: Testing general rules about a program across many generated inputs instead of checking only individually chosen examples.

In Turkish: özellik tabanlı test

How it is used

Useful for transformations and data structures. A property is a rule expected to hold, not an object field.

Example sentences

  1. Our property-based testing checks that sorting never changes the number of items.

    The same rule applies to many generated lists rather than one expected output.

  2. Our property-based testing found a short string that broke the encode-decode round trip.

    The failure exposes an input for which decoding does not restore the original text.

Common collocations

  • property-based testing framework
  • use property-based testing
  • automated testingUsing code and tools to run tests automatically and compare the results with what is expected, so they can be repeated quickly after every change.
  • test caseOne specific situation you check, with set inputs, steps and an expected result, for example 'logging in with a wrong password shows an error'.

More terms: Testing

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