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This change moves test data into the binaries rather than reading them from the disk at runtime. Advantages: - Tests become distributable - Cross-compile friendly. Build on one machine and execute in an arbitrary location on another. - Easier testing for backports. Users can verify that tests pass without having to track down corresponding test data. - More trustworthy test results and easier quality assurance as tests make fewer assumptions about their environment. - Tests could theoretically run at client/daemon startup and exit on failure. Disadvantages: - Required 'hexdump' build-dependency. This is a standard bsd tool that should be usable everywhere. It is likely already installed on all build-machines. - Tests can no longer be fudged after build by altering test-data. |
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| .. | ||
| data | ||
| accounting_tests.cpp | ||
| alert_tests.cpp | ||
| allocator_tests.cpp | ||
| base32_tests.cpp | ||
| base58_tests.cpp | ||
| base64_tests.cpp | ||
| bignum_tests.cpp | ||
| bip32_tests.cpp | ||
| bloom_tests.cpp | ||
| canonical_tests.cpp | ||
| checkblock_tests.cpp | ||
| Checkpoints_tests.cpp | ||
| compress_tests.cpp | ||
| DoS_tests.cpp | ||
| getarg_tests.cpp | ||
| hash_tests.cpp | ||
| hmac_tests.cpp | ||
| key_tests.cpp | ||
| Makefile.am | ||
| miner_tests.cpp | ||
| mruset_tests.cpp | ||
| multisig_tests.cpp | ||
| netbase_tests.cpp | ||
| pmt_tests.cpp | ||
| README | ||
| rpc_tests.cpp | ||
| script_P2SH_tests.cpp | ||
| script_tests.cpp | ||
| serialize_tests.cpp | ||
| sigopcount_tests.cpp | ||
| test_bitcoin.cpp | ||
| transaction_tests.cpp | ||
| uint160_tests.cpp | ||
| uint256_tests.cpp | ||
| util_tests.cpp | ||
| wallet_tests.cpp | ||
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, which simply includes other files that contain the actual unit tests (outside of a couple required preprocessor directives). 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 examples of this pattern, examine uint160_tests.cpp and 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/