Today, 2024-03-06, at 1930 UTC (11:30 am PST, 2:30 pm EST, 7:30 pm GMT, 20:30 CET, …) we are streaming the 21th episode of the Haskell Unfolder live on YouTube.
The Haskell Unfolder Episode 21: testing without a reference
The best case scenario when testing a piece of software is when we have a reference implementation to compare against. Often however such a reference is not available, begging the question how to test a function if we cannot verify what that function computes exactly. In this episode we will consider how to define properties to verify the implementation of Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm we discussed in Episode 20; you may wish to watch that episode first, but it’s not required: we will mostly treat the algorithm as a black box for the sake of testing it.
About the Haskell Unfolder
The Haskell Unfolder is a YouTube series about all things Haskell hosted by Edsko de Vries and Andres Löh, with episodes appearing approximately every two weeks. All episodes are live-streamed, and we try to respond to audience questions. All episodes are also available as recordings afterwards.
We have a GitHub repository with code samples from the episodes.
And we have a public Google calendar (also available as ICal) listing the planned schedule.