Thomas Arts
QuviQ AB
Dr. Thomas Arts is the co-founder and CTO of Quviq, a small company
that produced Quick Check, as testing tool for Erlang. Thomas has over
30 publications in various industry journals and has experience
refereeing conferences and workshops. He has successfully introduced
some new technologies to the industry, the latest being QuickCheck, a
tool for property based testing and aims to support test driven
development. Thomas is also an associate professor at the IT University
of Göteborg in the area of Software Engineering and Management. He
holds a PhD in computer science and after his PhD has been employed at
the Ericsson Computer Science Lab (Where they invented Erlang), where
he worked on program verification and the development of the Erlang
programming language. He has also worked in the broad spectrum
theoretical computer science, formal methods and industrial case-study
research, mainly applying all kind of techniques to systems written in
Erlang.
Thomas Arts is Giving the Following Talks
QuickCheck Tutorial: Using QuickCheck to Test Erlang Programs
QuickCheck is an automated testing tool which addresses these
problems by generating test cases from a concise specification (so that
many more cases can be tested), and simplifying failing cases to a
minimal example on a test failure (so that fault diagnosis is quick and
easy). QuickCheck enables developers to dramatically improve test
coverage, and find obscure errors at an earlier stage, lowering costs
and improving quality as a result.
In this tutorial, John Hughes and Thomas Arts will use examples to show how developers write QuickCheck specifications—which are actually Erlang programs using the QuickCheck API—and use them to test code written in Erlang or other programming languages. We will show how QuickCheck’s shrinking finds tiny examples that provoke errors, making the step from observing a bug to diagnosing it very short indeed, and we will show how property driven development can produce code that is solid from the word go.
In this tutorial, John Hughes and Thomas Arts will use examples to show how developers write QuickCheck specifications—which are actually Erlang programs using the QuickCheck API—and use them to test code written in Erlang or other programming languages. We will show how QuickCheck’s shrinking finds tiny examples that provoke errors, making the step from observing a bug to diagnosing it very short indeed, and we will show how property driven development can produce code that is solid from the word go.
