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Wladimir J. van der Laan 3516a31eaa Merge #18234: refactor: Replace boost::mutex,condition_var,chrono with std equivalents in scheduler
70a6b529f3 lint-cppcheck: Remove -DHAVE_WORKING_BOOST_SLEEP_FOR (Anthony Towns)
294937b39d scheduler_tests: re-enable mockforward test (Anthony Towns)
cea19f6859 Drop unused reverselock.h (Anthony Towns)
d0ebd93270 scheduler: switch from boost to std (Anthony Towns)
b9c4260127 sync.h: add REVERSE_LOCK (Anthony Towns)
306f71b4eb scheduler: don't rely on boost interrupt on shutdown (Anthony Towns)

Pull request description:

  Replacing boost functionality with C++11 stuff.

  Motivated by #18227, but should stand alone. Changing from `boost::condition_var` to `std::condition_var` means `threadGroup.interrupt_all` isn't enough to interrupt `serviceQueue` anymore, so that means calling `stop()` before `join_all()` is needed. And the existing reverselock.h code doesn't work with sync.h's DebugLock code (because the reversed lock won't be removed from `g_lockstack` which then leads to incorrect potential deadlock warnings), so I've replaced that with a dedicated class and macro that's aware of our debug lock behaviour.

  Fixes #16027, Fixes #14200, Fixes #18227

ACKs for top commit:
  laanwj:
    ACK 70a6b529f3

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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 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