MarcoFalke adf7843410
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#21786: wallet: ensure sat/vB feerates are in range (mantissa of 3)
847288df07b45ca535c849e518b22818ab492896 test: fee rate values that cannot be represented as sat/vB (Jon Atack)
06a90fa0381c790f7bde2ab9bf47d2b22acef4a5 rpc: for sat/vB fee rates, limit ParseFixedPoint decimals to 3 (Jon Atack)
0742c7840f03505597fd2de87db97f12597ef667 rpc: enable passing decimals to AmountFromValue, add doxygen (Jon Atack)
8ce3ef57a3e9ad13c0aaa4648e8584241d53592d test: ParseFixedPoint with 3 decimals for sat/vB fee rates (Jon Atack)
b5033275979a2a495b02b25f70cadbdcc8b6eb6a test: type error and out of range fee rates where missing (Jon Atack)
c5fd4344f7fcc257062a610c8ff26ffcc9b53953 test: explicit fee rates with invalid amounts (Jon Atack)
ea6f76b66ecc52360719053489e0ec9f9a673eab test: improve zero-value explicit fee rate coverage (Jon Atack)

Pull request description:

  - Improve/close gaps in existing test coverage before making the change
  - Enable passing `decimals` to `ParseFixedPoint()` when calling `AmountFromValue()`
  - Limit explicit fee rates in sat/vB passed in by users to 3 decimals, and raise otherwise
  - Add regression test coverage

  Closes #20534.

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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