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| author | MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com> | 2015-11-18 00:26:07 +0100 |
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| committer | MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com> | 2015-11-18 11:59:12 +0100 |
| commit | e16ee1cd1e1fd604ab9c2c4a715166d3fb40a53b (patch) | |
| tree | 07f4fbb374397226d6d4c1469f0aeba6f1edd7a9 | |
| parent | cc975745d585edf6ae3a9313f45da6dbdee16cf6 (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-e16ee1cd1e1fd604ab9c2c4a715166d3fb40a53b.tar.xz | |
[qa] Extend README.md
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qa/README.md | 19 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ lots of money. ### Automated Testing Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to -submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run (assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: `make check` +submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run +(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: `make check` -There are also regression and integration tests of the RPC interface, written +There are also [regression and integration tests](/qa) of the RPC interface, written in Python, that are run automatically on the build server. These tests can be run with: `qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py` diff --git a/qa/README.md b/qa/README.md index 93157f4f1f..758d1f47e5 100644 --- a/qa/README.md +++ b/qa/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ -Notes -===== +The [pull-tester](/qa/pull-tester/) folder contains a script to call +multiple tests from the [rpc-tests](/qa/rpc-tests/) folder. + +Every pull request to the bitcoin repository is built and run through +the regression test suite. You can also run all or only individual +tests locally. + +Running tests +============= You can run any single test by calling `qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py <testname>`. @@ -23,7 +30,8 @@ Possible options: Write tested RPC commands into this directory ``` -If you set the environment variable `PYTHON_DEBUG=1` you will get some debug output (example: `PYTHON_DEBUG=1 qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py wallet`). +If you set the environment variable `PYTHON_DEBUG=1` you will get some debug +output (example: `PYTHON_DEBUG=1 qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py wallet`). A 200-block -regtest blockchain and wallets for four nodes is created the first time a regression test is run and @@ -42,5 +50,8 @@ rm -rf cache killall bitcoind ``` +Writing tests +============= +You are encouraged to write tests for new or existing features. Further information about the test framework and individual rpc -tests is found in [qa/rpc-tests/README.md](/qa/rpc-tests/README.md). +tests is found in [qa/rpc-tests](/qa/rpc-tests). |