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W. J. van der Laan e20745c1bd Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#22029: [fuzz] Improve transport deserialization fuzz test coverage
e337145577 [fuzz] Occasional valid magic bytes for transport serialization test (Dhruv Mehta)
35571d8d9e [fuzz] Occasional valid checksum for transport serialization fuzz test (Dhruv Mehta)
654472a461 [fuzz] Add serialization to deserialization test (Dhruv Mehta)

Pull request description:

  This PR has 3 commits that increase the fuzz test coverage:

  Before commit 1:
  ```
  #306853 REDUCE cov: 798 ft: 5820 corp: 150/375Kb lim: 68333 exec/s: 1382 rss: 461Mb L: 254/63171 MS: 1 EraseBytes-
  #1453105 REDUCE cov: 798 ft: 5820 corp: 150/369Kb lim: 79613 exec/s: 1467 rss: 461Mb L: 6027/60873 MS: 1 EraseBytes-
  ```

  After commit 1 (adds serialization to de-serialization test):
  ```
  #303389 NEW cov: 1202 ft: 8382 corp: 157/382Kb lim: 68189 exec/s: 1451 rss: 447Mb L: 1386/65459 MS: 1 CopyPart-
  #1428759 REDUCE cov: 1202 ft: 8512 corp: 169/389Kb lim: 78749 exec/s: 1528 rss: 463Mb L: 1627/60488 MS: 1 EraseBytes-
  ```

  After commit 2 (provides an occasional checksum assist to the fuzzer inputs):
  ```
  #304820 NEW cov: 1440 ft: 4452 corp: 92/12551b lim: 2237 exec/s: 3386 rss: 486Mb L: 47/1111 MS: 1 ChangeByte-
  #1416181 REDUCE cov: 1442 ft: 5681 corp: 125/59Kb lim: 4096 exec/s: 3522 rss: 535Mb L: 2164/4049 MS: 1 EraseBytes-
  ```

  After commit 3 (provides an occasional magic bytes assist to the fuzzer inputs):
  ```
  #302684 NEW cov: 1454 ft: 3936 corp: 84/7056b lim: 2424 exec/s: 4146 rss: 477Mb L: 65/1108 MS: 3 CopyPart-CrossOver-CMP- DE: "\x0e\x00\x00\x00"-
  #1383925 REDUCE cov: 1454 ft: 4828 corp: 102/14573b lim: 4096 exec/s: 3954 rss: 534Mb L: 116/4050 MS: 2 EraseBytes-ChangeByte-
  ```

  If reviewers only accept the first commit, the seeds are not invalidated and new seeds are at: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/qa-assets/pull/61. In this case, we can also revert the test name change.

  If reviewers accept all three commits, the existing seeds are invalidated.

ACKs for top commit:
  practicalswift:
    Tested ACK e337145577

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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