property-based-testing

property-based-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 41 tokens per session (670 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing approach that generates many input examples automatically and checks whether broad rules always hold. These rules are called properties or invariants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test algorithms, parsers, serializers, data transformations, sorting, searching, and data structures.
Why use it?
It can find unusual input combinations and edge cases that a small set of hand-written examples may miss.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to test algorithms, parsers, serializers, data transformations, sorting, searching, and data structures.

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  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 4 Mar 2026
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skills/property-based-testing/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

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Property-Based Testing

Table of Contents

Overview

Property-based testing verifies that code satisfies general properties or invariants for a wide range of automatically generated inputs, rather than testing specific examples. This approach finds edge cases and bugs that example-based tests often miss.

When to Use

  • Testing algorithms with mathematical properties
  • Verifying invariants that should always hold
  • Finding edge cases automatically
  • Testing parsers and serializers (round-trip properties)
  • Validating data transformations
  • Testing sorting, searching, and data structure operations
  • Discovering unexpected input combinations

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# test_string_operations.py
import pytest
from hypothesis import given, strategies as st, assume, example

def reverse_string(s: str) -> str:
    """Reverse a string."""
    return s[::-1]

class TestStringOperations:
    @given(st.text())
    def test_reverse_twice_returns_original(self, s):
        """Property: Reversing twice returns the original string."""
        assert reverse_string(reverse_string(s)) == s

    @given(st.text())
    def test_reverse_length_unchanged(self, s):
        """Property: Reverse doesn't change length."""
        assert len(reverse_string(s)) == len(s)

    @given(st.text(min_size=1))
    def test_reverse_first_becomes_last(self, s):
        """Property: First char becomes last after reverse."""
        reversed_s = reverse_string(s)
        assert s[0] == reversed_s[-1]
        assert s[-1] == reversed_s[0]
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
Hypothesis for Python Hypothesis for Python
fast-check for JavaScript/TypeScript fast-check for JavaScript/TypeScript
junit-quickcheck for Java junit-quickcheck for Java

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 97 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A f0e2aa98f376

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property-based-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (338 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 670 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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