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Re:Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python by tybug on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:59AM (#45820135)
(Hypothesis maintainer here)

Yup, a standard test suite just doesn't run for long enough for coverage guidance to be worthwhile by default.

That said, coverage-guided fuzzing can be a really valuable and effective form of testing (see eg https://hypofuzz.com/).

Re:Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python by eru on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @05:34AM (#45821455)
Thanks for the good work!
Re:Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python by sevensor on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @06:25AM (#45821707)
Thank you, Hypothesis is brilliant!