QCheck vs StreamData
QCheck
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| Figure | QCheck | StreamData |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Property-Based Testing Tools | 7.9 (#9) | 7.0 (#23) |
| Documentation | The project documentation site lists documentation for five opam packages, with qcheck-core, qcheck, qcheck-alcotest, and qcheck-ounit at version 0.91 and ppx_deriving_qcheck at 0.9. | The repository links to online StreamData documentation on HexDocs. |
| Generators | QCheck includes combinators for constructing random generators, including generators for lists, arrays, recursive types, algebraic types, and tuples. | It provides generators and functions for combining them into custom generators. |
| Installation | QCheck can be installed through opam, and the README recommends qcheck-core for a minimal dependency set. | The README instructs users to add the stream_data dependency and run mix deps.get. |
| License | The repository identifies its license as BSD-2-Clause and says the code is released under the BSD license. | The repository README identifies the license as Apache License 2.0. |
| Purpose | QCheck is a QuickCheck-inspired property-based testing library for OCaml. | StreamData is an Elixir library for data generation and property-based testing. |
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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.