Hspec - Programming language

Hspec is a programming language created in 1990.

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Hspec is a testing framework for Haskell.

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Hspec first developed in https://github.com/hspec
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-- file Spec.hs
import Test.Hspec
import Test.QuickCheck
import Control.Exception (evaluate)

main :: IO ()
main = hspec $ do
  describe "Prelude.head" $ do
    it "returns the first element of a list" $ do
      head [23 ..] `shouldBe` (23 :: Int)

    it "returns the first element of an *arbitrary* list" $
      property $ \x xs -> head (x:xs) == (x :: Int)

    it "throws an exception if used with an empty list" $ do
      evaluate (head []) `shouldThrow` anyException