Frameworks for Testing Erlang Code
For complex projects, you’ll want to set up a test framework and integrate it with your build system. Here are a couple of frameworks that you might like to investigate:
- Common Test Framework
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The Common Test Framework is part of the Erlang/OTP distribution. It provides a complete set of tools for automating tests. The common test framework is used to test the Erlang distribution itself and to test many Ericsson products.
- Property-based testing
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Property-based testing is relatively new and an extremely good technique for shaking out hard-to-find bugs in your code. Instead of writing test cases, we describe the properties of the system in a form of predicate logic. The test tools generate random test cases that ...
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