Tired of writing countless test cases, thinking up random examples? Discover how property-based testing can turbocharge your testing process, making your test suite exhaustive with minimal effort. Property-Based Testing generates vast numbers of robust yet simple test cases, automatically -- and if it finds a problem, most tools will narrow it down to the exact edge cases. You will learn a powerful technique to uncover edge cases and exceptions you never knew existed, and make your test suite exhaustive, while actually writing fewer tests.

Depending on conference preference, this might be done in Elixir, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or maybe other languages if I have lead time to delve into their tooling.

I have done this for one conference so far, Software Quality Days, in Vienna, Austria, in May 2026; the recording (from my phone, so don't expect professional-level production) is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyZ6_6fO0dY .

Agenda:
- Status quo: testing by looking at chosen examples
- The problem with the status quo
- Basic explanation of Property Testing
- Simple and slightly more complex examples
- "Shrinking" to find edge cases
- FAQs
- Recap/Wrapup
- Q&A