No próximo dia 6 de Dezembro, pelas 14h30 na sala FC6 146 do DCC FCUP, Pedro Vasconcelos irá dar uma palestra intitulada "Why property-based testing matters".
A palestra é organizada pelo DCC-FCUP.
Short Bio
Pedro Vasconcelos did his BSc and MSc in Computer Science at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto and his PhD at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). He has been an Auxiliary Professor at DCC/FCUP since 2008, where he lectured courses in programming languages, compilers and related subjects. He is an integrated member of LIACC (Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory). His research interests include functional programming, type systems, property-based testing and programming pedagogy.
Title
Why property-based testing matters
Abstract
Property-based testing (PBT) is a testing methodology for software components (e.g. functions, classes, web APIs, etc.). Instead of writing specific test cases, a PBT test suite consists of general properties and (possibly) some data generators. An arbitrary number of tests can then be generated automatically by the testing framework. PBT originated more than 20 years ago in the functional programming community, but has since been adopted in many other programming languages and paradigms. It has also seen relevant industry adoption in companies like Ericsson, Volvo, Dropbox and AWS. This talk will present the main ideas behind PBT and show examples using Python's Hypothesis PBT library. Basic knowledge of Python is assumed, but no previous experience with PBT is needed. We argue that the current trend towards the adoption of AI-based tools (such as ChatGPT, Co-Pilot, etc.) for code generation makes PBT more relevant as a practical lightweight tool for code verification. This talk will be delivered in either English or Portuguese depending on the audience's preference.