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Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir: Finding a simplified case of inconsistency (page 146)

I noticed that the necessary inconsistence, which describes in an example PropEr framework does not find a discrepancy in the RFC 4180 specification, is far from at once. I was surprised when I ran the property several times and didn’t get the error I was looking for.

$ rebar3 proper
===> Testing prop_csv:prop_roundtrip()
....................................................................................................
OK: Passed 100 test(s).
===>
1/1 properties passed

When I increased the number of tests to 1000, the framework reproduced the necessary use case.

$ rebar3 proper -n 1000
===> Testing prop_csv:prop_roundtrip()
..........................!
Failed: After 27 test(s).
[#{[40,36] => []},#{[40,36] => []}]

Shrinking .......(7 time(s))
[#{[66,65] => []},#{[66,65] => []}]
===>
0/1 properties passed, 1 failed
===> Failed test cases:
prop_csv:prop_roundtrip() -> false

PropEr can help us in it better. As we know about a possible problem we can narrow Size to 1. For this task we can add simplified generator and property-based test:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Properties %%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
prop_roundtrip_01() ->
    ?FORALL(Maps,
            csv_source_01(),
            Maps
            =:= bday_csv:decode(
                    bday_csv:encode(Maps))).

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Generators %%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

csv_source_01() ->
    ?LET(Keys, header(1), list(entry(1, Keys))).

Launching that property we get the expected error has gotten every time:

$ rebar3 proper -d apps/bday/test -p prop_roundtrip_01
===> Linking _build/default/plugins/rebar3_format to _build/test/plugins/rebar3_format
===> Linking _build/default/plugins/katana_code to _build/test/plugins/katana_code
===> Verifying dependencies...
===> Linking _build/default/plugins/covertool to _build/test/plugins/covertool
===> Compiling bday
===> Testing prop_csv:prop_roundtrip_01()
.......!
Failed: After 8 test(s).
[#{[125] => [75,85,50]},#{[125] => []},#{[125] => []}]

Shrinking ......(6 time(s))
[#{[65] => []},#{[65] => []}]
===>
0/1 properties passed, 1 failed
===> Failed test cases:
prop_csv:prop_roundtrip_01() -> false

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