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Advent of PBT 2021 - Day 20

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Advent of PBT 2021 — Learn how to use property based testing and fast-check through examples

Our algorithm today is: drawTree.
It comes with the following documentation and prototype:

/** * Draw a tree with: * - a trunc made of '^', * - leaves on the left made of '(' * - and the ones on the right made of ')' * * @param size - Size of the tree >=1 */ declare function drawTree(size: number): string;
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We already wrote some examples based tests for it:

it("should be able to draw a tree of size 1", () => { // prettier-ignore expect(drawTree(1)).toEqual( "^\n" + "^\n" + "^" ); }); it("should be able to draw a tree of size 2", () => { // prettier-ignore expect(drawTree(2)).toEqual( " ^\n" + "(^)\n" + " ^\n" + " ^" ); }); it("should be able to draw a tree of size 5", () => { // prettier-ignore expect(drawTree(5)).toEqual( " ^\n" + " (^)\n" + " ((^))\n" + " (((^)))\n" + "((((^))))\n" + " ^\n" + " ^" ); });
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How would you cover it with Property Based Tests?

In order to ease your task we provide you with an already setup CodeSandbox, with examples based tests already written and a possible implementation of the algorithm: https://codesandbox.io/s/advent-of-pbt-day-20-61ylb?file=/src/index.spec.ts&previewwindow=tests

You wanna see the solution? Here is the set of properties I came with to cover today's algorithm: https://dev.to/dubzzz/advent-of-pbt-2021-day-20-solution-43nm

Back to "Advent of PBT 2021" to see topics covered during the other days and their solutions.

More about this serie on @ndubien or with the hashtag #AdventOfPBT.

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