ocaml-multicore / ocaml-multicore/dscheck
Add a way to skip execution of traces
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- OCaml
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Description
When debugging a failing case produced by qcheck-lin, it would be nice if dscheck could explore only the interleavings that produce the same intermediate values as reported by qcheck-lin (and skip the other execution traces that are less likely to have a bug). I think it would be enough to raise a specific exception to indicate that we don't need to continue exploring that way: (but not report it as a failure)
if value <> expected then raise Dscheck.Skip ; (* ... *)
(It almost works if the user does the try...with Skip -> () on their side, because the final postcondition is still called)
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The issue names no files or tests; start by locating dscheck's trace-exploration and final-postcondition handling. Determine how a Dscheck.Skip exception can stop one execution path without reporting a failure, then add coverage showing that matching traces continue and skipped traces do not.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- ocaml
- Domain
- testing-qa
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100