RandomizedTesting.Generators 2.7.8

dotnet add package RandomizedTesting.Generators --version 2.7.8                
NuGet\Install-Package RandomizedTesting.Generators -Version 2.7.8                
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.
<PackageReference Include="RandomizedTesting.Generators" Version="2.7.8" />                
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add RandomizedTesting.Generators --version 2.7.8                
#r "nuget: RandomizedTesting.Generators, 2.7.8"                
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
// Install RandomizedTesting.Generators as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=RandomizedTesting.Generators&version=2.7.8

// Install RandomizedTesting.Generators as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=RandomizedTesting.Generators&version=2.7.8                

Randomized Testing

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This is a C# port of the only the generators from the Java randomizedtesting library.

In addition to the random generators, the RandomExtensions class contains several useful low-level extension methods for generating numbers, text (html-like, regex-like, unicode, realistic unicode, plain ASCII), random picks from collections, or random regular expression instances.

Why would you want tests to have random data? This is to fill situations where it is not practical to test the entire range of values in a single test run, for example, with applications that analyze text. Tests can instead be designed to provide different input every time they run to catch edge cases that are difficult to test for. Generating random data also has many other purposes, such as quickly generating a set of text files to benchmark with without having to store several hundred MB worth of files (since the same random seed will always generate the same data).

Random Generator Examples

// Create a System.Random instance
Random random = new Random();

// Create a random bool
bool boolValue = random.NextBoolean();

// Create a random long
long longValue = random.NextInt64();

// Create a random long between 10 (inclusive) and 100 (inclusive)
long longRangeValue = random.NextInt64(minValue: 10, maxValue: 100);

// Create a random float
float floatValue = random.NextSingle();

// Create a random BigInteger (from System.Numerics)
BigInteger bigIntValue = random.NextBigInteger();

// Pick a random KeyValuePair from a generic dictionary
var dictionary = new Dictionary<string, string>
{
    ["one"] = "oneValue",
    ["two"] = "twoValue",
    ["three"] = "threeValue",
    ["four"] = "fourValue",
    ["five"] = "fiveValue",
};
KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp = random.NextFrom(dictionary);

// Pick a random element from an array
var array = new int[] { 1, 4, 7, 10, 14, 74, 136 };
var arrayElement = random.RandomFrom(array);

// Create a random string (plain ASCII)
string asciiValue = random.NextSimpleString(maxLength: 15);

// Create a random string with specific chars
string specValue = random.NextSimpleStringRange(minChar: 'A', maxChar: 'F', maxLength: 10);

// Create a random Unicode string (may contain surrogate pairs)
string unicodeValue = random.NextUnicodeString(maxLength: 20);

// Create a random realistic Unicode string (random characters picked from the same Unicode block)
string realUnicodeValue = random.NextRealisticUnicodeString(maxLength: 30);

// Fill part of a char[] with random Unicode characters
char[] chars = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.".ToCharArray();
random.NextFixedLengthUnicodeString(chars, startIndex: 8, length: 20);

// Generate a random regex-like string
string regexLike = random.NextRegexishString(maxLength: 20);

// Generate a random HTML-like string
string htmlLike = random.NextHtmlishString(numElements: 144);

// Randomly recase a string
string toRecase = "This Is A Pascal Cased String";
string recased = random.NextStringRecasing(toRecase);

// Generate a random Regex that compiles
Regex pattern = random.NextRegex();

Building and Testing

To build the project from source, see the Building and Testing documentation.

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