Remove bad chain alert partition check

As per meeting 2016-03-31
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/03/31/#bad-chain-alerts

The partition checker was producing huge number of false-positives
and was disabled in 0.12.1 on the understanding it would either be
fixed in 0.13 or removed entirely from master if not.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 79 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/alert_tests.cpp b/src/test/alert_tests.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 70f1f12273..0000000000
--- a/src/test/alert_tests.cpp
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@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2013-2015 The Bitcoin Core developers
-// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
-// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-
-// Unit tests for alert system
-
-#include "chainparams.h"
-#include "main.h" // For PartitionCheck
-
-#include "test/testutil.h"
-#include "test/test_bitcoin.h"
-
-#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
-
-BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE(Alert_tests, TestingSetup)
-
-
-static bool falseFunc() { return false; }
-
-BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(PartitionAlert)
-{
-    // Test PartitionCheck
-    CCriticalSection csDummy;
-    CBlockIndex indexDummy[100];
-    CChainParams& params = Params(CBaseChainParams::MAIN);
-    int64_t nPowTargetSpacing = params.GetConsensus().nPowTargetSpacing;
-
-    // Generate fake blockchain timestamps relative to
-    // an arbitrary time:
-    int64_t now = 1427379054;
-    SetMockTime(now);
-    for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
-    {
-        indexDummy[i].phashBlock = NULL;
-        if (i == 0) indexDummy[i].pprev = NULL;
-        else indexDummy[i].pprev = &indexDummy[i-1];
-        indexDummy[i].nHeight = i;
-        indexDummy[i].nTime = now - (100-i)*nPowTargetSpacing;
-        // Other members don't matter, the partition check code doesn't
-        // use them
-    }
-
-    strMiscWarning = "";
-
-    // Test 1: chain with blocks every nPowTargetSpacing seconds,
-    // as normal, no worries:
-    PartitionCheck(falseFunc, csDummy, &indexDummy[99], nPowTargetSpacing);
-    BOOST_CHECK_MESSAGE(strMiscWarning.empty(), strMiscWarning);
-
-    // Test 2: go 3.5 hours without a block, expect a warning:
-    now += 3*60*60+30*60;
-    SetMockTime(now);
-    PartitionCheck(falseFunc, csDummy, &indexDummy[99], nPowTargetSpacing);
-    BOOST_CHECK(!strMiscWarning.empty());
-    BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE(std::string("Got alert text: ")+strMiscWarning);
-    strMiscWarning = "";
-
-    // Test 3: test the "partition alerts only go off once per day"
-    // code:
-    now += 60*10;
-    SetMockTime(now);
-    PartitionCheck(falseFunc, csDummy, &indexDummy[99], nPowTargetSpacing);
-    BOOST_CHECK(strMiscWarning.empty());
-
-    // Test 4: get 2.5 times as many blocks as expected:
-    now += 60*60*24; // Pretend it is a day later
-    SetMockTime(now);
-    int64_t quickSpacing = nPowTargetSpacing*2/5;
-    for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) // Tweak chain timestamps:
-        indexDummy[i].nTime = now - (100-i)*quickSpacing;
-    PartitionCheck(falseFunc, csDummy, &indexDummy[99], nPowTargetSpacing);
-    BOOST_CHECK(!strMiscWarning.empty());
-    BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE(std::string("Got alert text: ")+strMiscWarning);
-    strMiscWarning = "";
-
-    SetMockTime(0);
-}
-
-BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END()
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