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Quick specifications for the busy programmer

Part of: JFP Research Articles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2017

NICHOLAS SMALLBONE ,
MOA JOHANSSON ,
KOEN CLAESSEN  and
MAXIMILIAN ALGEHED
NICHOLAS SMALLBONE
Affiliation:
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (e-mails: nicsma@chalmers.se, moa.johansson@chalmers.se, koen@chalmers.se, algehed@chalmers.se)
MOA JOHANSSON
Affiliation:
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (e-mails: nicsma@chalmers.se, moa.johansson@chalmers.se, koen@chalmers.se, algehed@chalmers.se)
KOEN CLAESSEN
Affiliation:
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (e-mails: nicsma@chalmers.se, moa.johansson@chalmers.se, koen@chalmers.se, algehed@chalmers.se)
MAXIMILIAN ALGEHED
Affiliation:
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (e-mails: nicsma@chalmers.se, moa.johansson@chalmers.se, koen@chalmers.se, algehed@chalmers.se)
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QuickSpec is a theory exploration system which tests a Haskell program to find equational properties of it, automatically. The equations can be used to help understand the program, or as lemmas to help prove the program correct. QuickSpec is largely automatic: the user just supplies the functions to be tested and QuickCheck data generators. Previous theory exploration systems, including earlier versions of QuickSpec itself, scaled poorly. This paper describes a new architecture for theory exploration with which we can find vastly more complex laws than before, and much faster. We demonstrate theory exploration in QuickSpec on problems both from functional programming and mathematics.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 27 , 2017 , e18
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