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Wladimir J. van der Laan b805dbb0b9 Merge #19809: log: Prefix log messages with function name and source code location if -logsourcelocations is set
b4511e2e2e log: Prefix log messages with function name if -logsourcelocations is set (practicalswift)

Pull request description:

  Prefix log messages with function name if `-logfunctionnames` is set.

  Yes, exactly like `-logthreadnames` but for function names instead of thread names :)

  This is a small developer ergonomics improvement: I've found this to be a cheap/simple way to correlate log output and originating function.

  For me it beats the ordinary cycle of 1.) try to figure out a regexp matching the static part of the dynamic log message, 2.) `git grep -E 'Using .* MiB out of .* requested for signature cache'`, 3.) `mcedit filename.cpp` (`openemacs filename.cpp` works too!) and 4.) search for log message and scroll up to find the function name :)

  Without any logging parameters:

  ```
  $ src/bitcoind -regtest
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z Using RdRand as an additional entropy source
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z Using 16 MiB out of 32/2 requested for signature cache, able to store 524288 elements
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z Using 16 MiB out of 32/2 requested for script execution cache, able to store 524288 elements
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z Loaded best chain: hashBestChain=0fff88f13cb7b2c71f2a335e3a4fc328bf5beb436012afca590b1a11466e22ff height=0 date=2011-02-02T23:16:42Z progress=1.000000
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z block tree size = 1
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z nBestHeight = 0
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z Imported mempool transactions from disk: 0 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 expired, 0 already there, 0 waiting for initial broadcast
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z 0 addresses found from DNS seeds
  ```

  With `-logthreadnames` and `-logfunctionnames`:

  ```
  $ src/bitcoind -regtest -logthreadnames -logfunctionnames
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z [init] [ReportHardwareRand] Using RdRand as an additional entropy source
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z [init] [InitSignatureCache] Using 16 MiB out of 32/2 requested for signature cache, able to store 524288 elements
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z [init] [InitScriptExecutionCache] Using 16 MiB out of 32/2 requested for script execution cache, able to store 524288 elements
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z [init] [LoadChainTip] Loaded best chain: hashBestChain=0fff88f13cb7b2c71f2a335e3a4fc328bf5beb436012afca590b1a11466e22ff height=0 date=2011-02-02T23:16:42Z progress=1.000000
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z [init] [AppInitMain] block tree size = 1
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z [init] [AppInitMain] nBestHeight = 0
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z [loadblk] [LoadMempool] Imported mempool transactions from disk: 0 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 expired, 0 already there, 0 waiting for initial broadcast
  2020-08-25T03:29:04Z [dnsseed] [ThreadDNSAddressSeed] 0 addresses found from DNS seeds
  ```

ACKs for top commit:
  laanwj:
    Code review ACK b4511e2e2e
  MarcoFalke:
    review ACK b4511e2e2e 🌃

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Unit tests

The sources in this directory are unit test cases. Boost includes a unit testing framework, and since Bitcoin Core already uses Boost, it makes sense to simply use this framework rather than require developers to configure some other framework (we want as few impediments to creating unit tests as possible).

The build system is set up to compile an executable called test_bitcoin that runs all of the unit tests. The main source file for the test library is found in util/setup_common.cpp.

Compiling/running unit tests

Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in ./configure and tests weren't explicitly disabled.

After configuring, they can be run with make check.

To run the unit tests manually, launch src/test/test_bitcoin. To recompile after a test file was modified, run make and then run the test again. If you modify a non-test file, use make -C src/test to recompile only what's needed to run the unit tests.

To add more unit tests, add BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE functions to the existing .cpp files in the test/ directory or add new .cpp files that implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections.

To run the GUI unit tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt

To add more GUI unit tests, add them to the src/qt/test/ directory and the src/qt/test/test_main.cpp file.

Running individual tests

test_bitcoin has some built-in command-line arguments; for example, to run just the getarg_tests verbosely:

test_bitcoin --log_level=all --run_test=getarg_tests -- DEBUG_LOG_OUT

log_level controls the verbosity of the test framework, which logs when a test case is entered, for example. The DEBUG_LOG_OUT after the two dashes redirects the debug log, which would normally go to a file in the test datadir (BasicTestingSetup::m_path_root), to the standard terminal output.

... or to run just the doubledash test:

test_bitcoin --run_test=getarg_tests/doubledash

Run test_bitcoin --help for the full list.

Adding test cases

To add a new unit test file to our test suite you need to add the file to src/Makefile.test.include. The pattern is to create one test file for each class or source file for which you want to create unit tests. The file naming convention is <source_filename>_tests.cpp and such files should wrap their tests in a test suite called <source_filename>_tests. For an example of this pattern, see uint256_tests.cpp.

Logging and debugging in unit tests

make check will write to a log file foo_tests.cpp.log and display this file on failure. For running individual tests verbosely, refer to the section above.

To write to logs from unit tests you need to use specific message methods provided by Boost. The simplest is BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE.

For debugging you can launch the test_bitcoin executable with gdbor lldb and start debugging, just like you would with any other program:

gdb src/test/test_bitcoin