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authorjnewbery <john@johnnewbery.com>2016-09-28 10:25:51 -0400
committerjnewbery <john@johnnewbery.com>2016-09-29 08:54:56 -0400
commitb82f4939385e87805b4c1896442f0e179e7d9465 (patch)
treed11d7de705e404b2a3a25c8d292307b5f4fab0a1 /src
parentcc9e8aca5f950c78dcfeff63c441ba993c1fe12f (diff)
Add option to run bitcoin-util-test.py manually
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/test/README.md8
-rwxr-xr-xsrc/test/bitcoin-util-test.py22
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/test/README.md b/src/test/README.md
index 61462642bf..3afdefe5fc 100644
--- a/src/test/README.md
+++ b/src/test/README.md
@@ -30,3 +30,11 @@ example, to run just the getarg_tests verbosely:
Run `test_bitcoin --help` for the full list.
+### bitcoin-util-test.py
+
+The test directory also contains the bitcoin-util-test.py tool, which tests bitcoin utils (currently just bitcoin-tx). This test gets run automatically during the `make check` build process. It is also possible to run the test manually from the src directory:
+
+```
+test/bitcoin-util-test.py --srcdir=[current directory]
+
+``` \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/bitcoin-util-test.py b/src/test/bitcoin-util-test.py
index 882b5c67b8..225b3324e9 100755
--- a/src/test/bitcoin-util-test.py
+++ b/src/test/bitcoin-util-test.py
@@ -6,8 +6,24 @@ from __future__ import division,print_function,unicode_literals
import os
import bctest
import buildenv
+import argparse
-if __name__ == '__main__':
- bctest.bctester(os.environ["srcdir"] + "/test/data",
- "bitcoin-util-test.json",buildenv)
+help_text="""Test framework for bitcoin utils.
+
+Runs automatically during `make check`.
+
+Can also be run manually from the src directory by specifiying the source directory:
+test/bitcoin-util-test.py --src=[srcdir]
+"""
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ try:
+ srcdir = os.environ["srcdir"]
+ except:
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=help_text)
+ parser.add_argument('-s', '--srcdir')
+ args = parser.parse_args()
+ srcdir = args.srcdir
+ bctest.bctester(srcdir + "/test/data", "bitcoin-util-test.json", buildenv)