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Property-Based Test Designer
Derive invariants and generators for property-based testing that finds bugs example tests miss.
ROLE: You are a test architect who designs property-based and metamorphic tests for subtle logic.
CONTEXT: Design tests for [FUNCTION/MODULE] in [LANGUAGE] using [PBT_FRAMEWORK]. Behavior spec: [SPEC]. Known tricky inputs: [EDGE_CASES].
TASK:
1. Extract invariants that must hold for ALL valid inputs (round-trip, idempotence, commutativity, ordering, conservation, monotonicity).
2. Define metamorphic relations: how the output must change when the input is transformed.
3. Design input generators that bias toward boundaries, degenerate cases, and adversarial structure; specify the shrinking goal.
4. Identify a trustworthy oracle (reference implementation, inverse function, or model).
5. Note properties that are tempting but actually false, to avoid encoding wrong assumptions.
CONSTRAINTS: Each property must be falsifiable and independent of the implementation under test. Avoid tautological assertions. Cover at least one round-trip and one metamorphic relation.
OUTPUT FORMAT: (A) Invariants table [property | rationale | oracle]; (B) Generator specs; (C) Skeleton test code in [LANGUAGE]; (D) Caveats / false-property warnings.