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8bca30ea17[rpc] expose ability to mock scheduler via the rpc (Amiti Uttarwar)7c8b6e5b52[lib] add scheduler to node context (Amiti Uttarwar)930d837542[test] add chainparams property to indicate chain allows time mocking (Amiti Uttarwar)1cd43e83c6[test] unit test for new MockForward scheduler method (Amiti Uttarwar)a6f63598ad[util] allow scheduler to be mocked (Amiti Uttarwar) Pull request description: This PR is to support functional tests by allowing the scheduler to be mocked via the RPC. It adds a `MockForward` method to the scheduler class that iterates through the task queue and reschedules them to be `delta_seconds` sooner. This is currently used to support functional testing of the "unbroadcast" set tracking in #18038. If this patch is accepted, it would also be useful to simplify the code in #16698. ACKs for top commit: MarcoFalke: ACK8bca30ea17, only change is some style fixups 🕓 Tree-SHA512: 2a97fe8ade2b7fd1fb5cdfa1dcafb3227a377d7a847e3845a228bc119eb77824b4aefa43d922a06d583939b22725e223f308cf092961048079d36f6b1d9a639b
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