Merge #9065: Merge `doc/unit-tests.md` into `src/test/README.md`

eedc461 Merge `doc/unit-tests.md` into `src/test/README.md` (Wladimir J. van der Laan)

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/README.md b/src/test/README.md
index 3afdefe5fc..8f99804e10 100644
--- a/src/test/README.md
+++ b/src/test/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,36 @@
-# Notes
+### Compiling/running unit tests
+
+Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in `./configure`
+and tests weren't explicitly disabled.
+
+After configuring, they can be run with `make check`.
+
+To run the bitcoind tests manually, launch `src/test/test_bitcoin`.
+
+To add more bitcoind tests, add `BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE` functions to the existing
+.cpp files in the `test/` directory or add new .cpp files that
+implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections.
+
+To run the bitcoin-qt tests manually, launch `src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt`
+
+To add more bitcoin-qt tests, add them to the `src/qt/test/` directory and
+the `src/qt/test/test_main.cpp` file.
+
+### Running individual tests
+
+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.
+
+### Note on adding test cases
+
 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
@@ -19,17 +51,6 @@ 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/](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.
-
 ### 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:
@@ -37,4 +58,4 @@ The test directory also contains the bitcoin-util-test.py tool, which tests bitc
 ```
 test/bitcoin-util-test.py --srcdir=[current directory]
 
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```