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bb36372b8f2bd675313ae8553ceb61f28c2c1afd test: add unit tests for Span-parsing helpers (Sebastian Falbesoner) 5e69aeec3f2a0fafd5e591b7222716f00145761d Add documenting comments to spanparsing.h (Pieter Wuille) 230d43fdbc41b356700b0d8a6984d69e00279ade Abstract out some of the descriptor Span-parsing helpers (Pieter Wuille) Pull request description: As suggested here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16800#issuecomment-531605482. This moves the Span parsing functions out of the descriptor module, making them more easily usable for other parsers (in particular, in preparation for miniscript parsing). ACKs for top commit: MarcoFalke: ACK bb36372b8f2bd675313ae8553ceb61f28c2c1afd Tree-SHA512: b5c5c11a9bc3f0a1c2c4cfa22755654ecfb8d4b69da0dc1fb9f04e1556dc0f6ffd87ad153600963279ac465d587d7971b53d240ced802d12693682411ac73deb
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