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Gopter

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Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
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Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published21
Spec score · Property-Based Testing Tools8.6 (#2)8.0 (#8)
LicenseThe repository identifies Gopter as MIT licensed.The project build identifies its license as BSD-3-Clause.
PurposeGopter is a Go property-testing library that brings ideas from ScalaCheck and QuickCheck to Go.ScalaCheck is a Scala library for automated property-based testing of Scala or Java programs.

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Gopter

Gopter is a free Go module for property-based testing. It creates properties from conditions and generated inputs, then checks whether those properties hold. Its generators provide more control than Go's testing/quick package and can be composed with operations such as Map, FlatMap, SuchThat, and WithShrinker. When a property fails, shrinkers seek a smaller value that still demonstrates the failure. Gopter also includes a generator for regular-expression matches and supports stateful tests based on arbitrary commands. Properties can run with Go's testing.T through TestingRun, and the gopter/convey package provides helpers for using Gopter inside GoConvey tests. Console and formatted reporters present test results. The project declares Go 1.20 and is distributed under the MIT License. Its documentation covers the gopter, gen, prop, arbitrary, commands, and convey packages. The README identifies two omissions: ScalaCheck's Pretty feature is not provided, and parallel commands are not available yet.

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ScalaCheck

ScalaCheck is a free Scala library for automated property-based testing of Scala and Java programs. It checks defined properties against randomized input parameters and reports the arguments that produce a failure. The library supports parameterized cases and parallel execution, and can run on its own with a built-in test runner. For sbt projects, the site shows how to add it as a test dependency; it is also integrated with ScalaTest, specs2 and LambdaTest. ScalaCheck has no external dependencies beyond the Scala runtime. Build artifacts are published in the Central Repository, with an sbt dependency declaration available from the download page. Documentation includes a user guide and API reference. The site lists version 1.19.0, released September 6, 2025. The project identifies the BSD-3-Clause license and lists a security policy. Its build defines JVM, Scala.js and Scala Native platforms, and its README says the Gradle plugin supports Scala.js and Scala Native. The site names the Scala compiler and Akka among projects that use it.

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