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fa0a731d007a8e76d2740a2e6ead2289de77e475 test: Add RegTestingSetup to setup_common (MarcoFalke) fa54b3e2485f701aa420c37f09a2859a5b805161 test: move-only ComputeFilter to src/test/lib/blockfilter (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: The default chain for `TestingSetup` is the main chain. However, any test that wants to mine blocks on demand needs to switch to regtest. This is done manually and in-line right now. Fix that by creating an explicit `RegTestingSetup` and use it where appropriate. Also, add a move-only commit to move `ComputeFilter` into the newly created unit test library. Both commits are part of #15845, but split up because they are useful on their own. ACKs for top commit: practicalswift: ACK fa0a731d007a8e76d2740a2e6ead2289de77e475 -- diff looks correct Tree-SHA512: 02b9765580b355ed8d1be555f8ae11fa6e3d575f5cb177bbdda0319378837e29de5555c126c477dc8a1e8a5be47335afdcff152cf2dea2fbdd1a988ddde3689b
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 is called
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 bitcoind 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 bitcoind tests.
To add more bitcoind 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 bitcoin-qt tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt
To add more bitcoin-qt 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
... 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
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 bitcoind:
gdb src/test/test_bitcoin