[erlang-questions] Quickcheck/PropEr: List generator not working as expected

[Magnus Klaar]

Hi!

All, iirc, quickcheck-ers has a notion on the size of a value built in, this
will affect the length of lists, depth of trees etc that is incremented as
more tests pass to increase the complexity of the generated test cases. You
are using proper, the knob in proper you need to tweak is the 'start_size'
option, if you start at a size greater than 0 or 1 your length-predicate
will never hold for the first value(s) in the list(constant()) sequence.

MVH Magnus

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ward Bekker <ward@REDACTED> wrote:

> See git@REDACTED:wardbekker/proper_test.git , src/test.erl for a
> runnable demo app. Start with ./shell from the projects root
>
> When I test the property
> `proper:quickcheck(test:prop_ends_with_double_cons_is_true()).` The
> following error is outputted to console:
>
> Error: Couldn't produce an instance that satisfies all strict constraints
> after 50 tries.
>
> Is seems that `?SUCHTHAT(Drow, list(consonant()), length(Drow) > 2)` can't
> generate valid values.
>
> When I output the values generated by `list(consonant())` I notice that
> only zero or one length lists are generated. Why is that?
>
> Thx,
>
> Ward
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