How to use Specs2 with Scalacheck to automate testing of String arguments?

A very direct translation is using the check method and simple functions:

package test

import org.specs2._
import org.scalacheck._

class ScalaCheckExamples extends Specification with ScalaCheck { def is =

  "startsWith" ! check { (a: String, b: String) => (a+b).startsWith(a) }                                                ^
  "endsWith"   ! check { (a: String, b: String) => (a+b).endsWith(b) }                                                  ^
  "concat"     ! check { (a: String, b: String) => (a+b).length > a.length && (a+b).length > b.length }                 ^
  "substring"  ! check { (a: String, b: String) => (a+b).substring(a.length) == b }                                     ^
  "substring"  ! check { (a: String, b: String, c: String) => (a+b+c).substring(a.length, a.length+b.length) == b }     ^
                                                                                                                        end
 }

And the output actually shows that the concat property is not correct:

  [info] + startsWith
  [info] + endsWith
  [error] x concat
  [error]   A counter-example is ['', ''] (after 0 try)
  [error] the value is false
  [error]  (ScalaCheckExamplesSpec.scala:6)
  [info] + substring
  [info] + substring
  [info]
  [info] Total for specification ScalaCheckExamplesSpec
  [info] Finished in 7 seconds, 547 ms
  [info] 5 examples, 401 expectations, 1 failure, 0 error
  [info]

Eric.

For more information on using the ScalaCheck library in specs2, check out the ScalaCheck Guide in the specs2 documentation.