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e3f9c05 Add CheckInputs() unit tests (Suhas Daftuar) a3543af Better document CheckInputs parameter meanings (Matt Corallo) 309ee1a Update -maxsigcachesize doc clarify init logprints for it (Matt Corallo) b014668 Add CheckInputs wrapper CCoinsViewMemPool -> non-consensus-critical (Matt Corallo) eada04e Do not print soft-fork-script warning with -promiscuousmempool (Matt Corallo) b5fea8d Cache full script execution results in addition to signatures (Matt Corallo) 6d22b2b Pull script verify flags calculation out of ConnectBlock (Matt Corallo) Tree-SHA512: 0c6c3c79c64fcb21e17ab60290c5c96d4fac11624c49f841a4201eec21cb480314c52a07d1e3abd4f9c764785cc57bfd178511f495aa0469addb204e96214fe4
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 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
test_bitcoin.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/.