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fabc57e07dtest: Log to debug.log in all tests (MarcoFalke)fa4a04a5a9test: use common setup in gui tests (MarcoFalke)fad3d2a624test: Create data dir in BasicTestingSetup (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: This makes it easier to debug a frozen test or a test that failed. To debug a failed test, remove the line `fs::remove_all(m_path_root);`. The pull is done in three commits: * Create a datadir for every unit test once (and only once). This requires the `SetDataDir` function to go away. * Use the common setup in the gui unit tests. Some of those tests are testing the init sequence, so we'd have to undo some of what the testing setup did. * Log to the debug.log in all tests ACKs for top commit: laanwj: ACKfabc57e07dTree-SHA512: 73444210b88172669e2cd22c2703a1e30e105185d2d5f03decbdedcfd09c64ed208d3716c59c8bebb0e44214cee5c8095e3e995d049e1572ee98f1017e413665
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.
Note on adding test cases
The sources in this directory are unit test cases. Boost includes a unit testing framework, and since bitcoin 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 setup to compile an executable called test_bitcoin
that runs all of the unit tests. The main source file is called
setup_common.cpp. 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,
examine uint256_tests.cpp.
For further reading, I found the following website to be helpful in explaining how the boost unit test framework works: http://www.alittlemadness.com/2009/03/31/c-unit-testing-with-boosttest/.