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Piper/add property based testing for abi encoding #355
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What was wrong
Property based testing is a way to write test cases such that they can find edge cases in your code that you might not otherwise find.
What does this PR do?
This PR adds a single test case to the ABI encoding that tests that a round trip through
abi.decode_abi(abi.encode_abi(...))
always preserves the original value.This test case is facilitated by
hypothesis
a property based testing library for python.Alongside this are some new caching instructions for travis so that:
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