2024/04/17 by Robert Krook, Nicholas Smallbone, Krook, Robert +5
Computer Science · #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Embedded Systems Design Techniques #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.16062
This paper introduces a new parallel run-time for QuickCheck, a Haskell library and EDSL for specifying and randomly testing properties of programs. The new run-time can run multiple tests for a single property in parallel, using the available cores. Moreover, if a counterexample is found, the run-time can also shrink the test case in parallel, implementing a parallel search for a locally minimal counterexample. Our experimental results show a 3--9× speed-up for testing QuickCheck properties on a variety of heavy-weight benchmark problems. We also evaluate two different shrinking strategies; deterministic shrinking, which guarantees to produce the same minimal test case as standard sequential shrinking, and greedy shrinking, which does not have this guarantee but still produces a locally minimal test case, and is faster in practice.