QCheck vs QuickCheck
QCheck
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| Figure | QCheck | QuickCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Property-Based Testing Tools | 7.9 (#9) | 6.5 (#26) |
| License | The repository identifies its license as BSD-2-Clause and says the code is released under the BSD license. | The package metadata identifies the license as BSD3. |
| Maintainer | The project page says it is maintained by c-cube, whose GitHub profile identifies Simon Cruanes. | The package metadata names Nick Smallbone as maintainer. |
| Purpose | QCheck is a QuickCheck-inspired property-based testing library for OCaml. | QuickCheck is a Haskell library for random testing of program properties. |
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In their own words
QCheck
QCheck is a property-based testing library for OCaml, inspired by QuickCheck. Rather than relying only on hand-picked examples, it provides combinators to generate values such as lists, arrays, tuples, recursive types, and algebraic types for checking properties. When a check fails, generators can be paired with printers and shrinkers to show and reduce counterexamples. QCheck2 builds shrinking into its generators, though the project describes that API as less battle-tested than QCheck. The package family includes qcheck-core, qcheck-ounit, qcheck-alcotest, qcheck, and ppx_deriving_qcheck; the last can derive generators from type declarations. Runner options include QCheck_base_runner in qcheck-core and QCheck_runner with OUnit compatibility in qcheck, with integration layers for OUnit and Alcotest. The project also points to qcheck-stm for sequential and parallel model-based tests and qcheck-lin for sequential consistency testing. Installation is available through opam, and the source can be built with make. The minimal qcheck-core package depends only on unix and dune. QCheck is free and licensed under BSD-2-Clause.