Hi all,

I am doing some generative testing with test.check and need a way to 
control the growth rate of data structures (the regular linear growth 
quickly makes the computations too large for meaningful testing usage). I 
came up with the following solution to do this:

(defn gen-resize 
  "Creates a generator that pre-modifies the 'size' pramater with the 
function f. Use if you want to 
   have the size grow at a different rate from the normal linear scaling."
  ([f gen]
    (let [gf (or (:gen gen) "gen paramter must be a test.check generator")
          new-gf (fn [rnd size]
                   (gf rnd (f size)))]
      (clojure.test.check.generators.Generator. new-gf))))

Normal O(n) growth:

(gen/sample gen/s-pos-int 30)
=> (1 2 3 2 4 5 4 7 6 3 3 7 10 4 8 11 14 12 6 10 9 1 8 21 12 16 25 25 21 6)

Controlled O(sqrt(n)) growth:

(gen/sample (gen-resize sqrt gen/s-pos-int) 30)
=> (1 2 2 2 2 4 3 3 3 3 4 3 5 1 2 3 2 4 4 2 2 3 6 6 2 5 5 4 6 3)

So.... it seems to work, but is this a sane / recommended approach? Am I 
relying too much on test.check internals?

  mikera

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