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Cory Fields daa384120a crypto: add aes cbc tests		2016-05-13 10:23:03 +02:00
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data	Fixing comment in script_test.json test case	2016-04-25 11:08:10 -05:00
addrman_tests.cpp
alert_tests.cpp
allocator_tests.cpp
amount_tests.cpp	[amount] tests: Fix off-by-one mistake	2016-04-09 15:28:22 +02:00
arith_uint256_tests.cpp
base32_tests.cpp
base58_tests.cpp
base64_tests.cpp
bctest.py	[test] bctest.py: Revert `faa41ee`	2016-04-14 19:39:53 +02:00
bip32_tests.cpp	add bip32 pubkey serialization	2016-04-14 20:56:33 +02:00
bitcoin-util-test.py
bloom_tests.cpp	More efficient bitsliced rolling Bloom filter	2016-04-28 14:56:32 +02:00
buildenv.py.in
Checkpoints_tests.cpp
coins_tests.cpp	Remove obsolete reference to CValidationState from UpdateCoins.	2016-04-30 15:14:22 -04:00
compress_tests.cpp
crypto_tests.cpp	crypto: add aes cbc tests	2016-05-13 10:23:03 +02:00
dbwrapper_tests.cpp	dbwrapper: Pass parent CDBWrapper into CDBBatch and CDBIterator	2016-04-23 09:32:25 +02:00
DoS_tests.cpp
getarg_tests.cpp
hash_tests.cpp
key_tests.cpp
limitedmap_tests.cpp
main_tests.cpp
Makefile
mempool_tests.cpp
merkle_tests.cpp
miner_tests.cpp	Corrected values	2016-04-07 10:14:49 -04:00
multisig_tests.cpp	wallet_ismine.h → script/ismine.h	2016-04-18 15:14:36 +02:00
netbase_tests.cpp
pmt_tests.cpp
policyestimator_tests.cpp
pow_tests.cpp
prevector_tests.cpp	test prevector::swap	2016-04-16 08:05:11 -07:00
README.md
reverselock_tests.cpp
rpc_tests.cpp	RPC: fix generatetoaddress failing to parse address and add unit test	2016-04-03 14:30:00 +00:00
sanity_tests.cpp
scheduler_tests.cpp	Reenable multithread scheduler test.	2016-05-06 20:44:39 +02:00
script_P2SH_tests.cpp	wallet_ismine.h → script/ismine.h	2016-04-18 15:14:36 +02:00
script_tests.cpp	Unit test for CScript::FindAndDelete	2016-04-19 13:22:45 -07:00
scriptnum10.h
scriptnum_tests.cpp
serialize_tests.cpp	tests: add varints_bitpatterns test	2016-04-09 09:17:51 +02:00
sighash_tests.cpp
sigopcount_tests.cpp
skiplist_tests.cpp
streams_tests.cpp
test_bitcoin.cpp	Merge #7787 : [Moveonly] Create ui_interface.cpp	2016-04-19 16:10:57 +02:00
test_bitcoin.h	test: Create test fixture for wallet	2016-04-18 14:57:42 +02:00
testutil.cpp
testutil.h
timedata_tests.cpp
transaction_tests.cpp
txvalidationcache_tests.cpp
uint256_tests.cpp
univalue_tests.cpp
util_tests.cpp
versionbits_tests.cpp

README.md

Notes

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.

Add the source files to /src/Makefile.test.include to add them to the build.

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/.

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.