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authorMartin Erlandsson <martin@megabit.se>2019-04-16 14:49:42 +0200
committerFabian Jahr <fjahr@protonmail.com>2019-10-17 17:53:45 +0200
commit9576614d2d91ca946d164dfffca441f8bcbd6e2c (patch)
tree17108b66b28083ecf582dc515bb89c49e6bd6e75 /test/functional
parent561a7d30478b82f5d46dcf0f16e864a9608004f4 (diff)
doc: Describe log files + consistent paths in test READMEs
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@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
#### Example test
-The [example_test.py](example_test.py) is a heavily commented example of a test case that uses both
-the RPC and P2P interfaces. If you are writing your first test, copy that file
-and modify to fit your needs.
+The file [test/functional/example_test.py](example_test.py) is a heavily commented example
+of a test case that uses both the RPC and P2P interfaces. If you are writing your first test, copy
+that file and modify to fit your needs.
#### Coverage
-Running `test_runner.py` with the `--coverage` argument tracks which RPCs are
+Running `test/functional/test_runner.py` with the `--coverage` argument tracks which RPCs are
called by the tests and prints a report of uncovered RPCs in the summary. This
can be used (along with the `--extended` argument) to find out which RPCs we
don't have test cases for.
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ P2P messages. These can be found in the following source files:
#### Using the P2P interface
-- `messages.py` contains all the definitions for objects that pass
+- [messages.py](test_framework/messages.py) contains all the definitions for objects that pass
over the network (`CBlock`, `CTransaction`, etc, along with the network-level
wrappers for them, `msg_block`, `msg_tx`, etc).
@@ -96,32 +96,35 @@ the Bitcoin Core node application logic. For custom behaviour, subclass the
P2PInterface object and override the callback methods.
- Can be used to write tests where specific P2P protocol behavior is tested.
-Examples tests are `p2p_unrequested_blocks.py`, `p2p_compactblocks.py`.
+Examples tests are [p2p_unrequested_blocks.py](p2p_unrequested_blocks.py),
+[p2p_compactblocks.py](p2p_compactblocks.py).
-### test-framework modules
+### Test framework modules
+The following are useful modules for test developers. They are located in
+[test/functional/test_framework/](test_framework).
-#### [test_framework/authproxy.py](test_framework/authproxy.py)
+#### [authproxy.py](test_framework/authproxy.py)
Taken from the [python-bitcoinrpc repository](https://github.com/jgarzik/python-bitcoinrpc).
-#### [test_framework/test_framework.py](test_framework/test_framework.py)
+#### [test_framework.py](test_framework/test_framework.py)
Base class for functional tests.
-#### [test_framework/util.py](test_framework/util.py)
+#### [util.py](test_framework/util.py)
Generally useful functions.
-#### [test_framework/mininode.py](test_framework/mininode.py)
+#### [mininode.py](test_framework/mininode.py)
Basic code to support P2P connectivity to a bitcoind.
-#### [test_framework/script.py](test_framework/script.py)
+#### [script.py](test_framework/script.py)
Utilities for manipulating transaction scripts (originally from python-bitcoinlib)
-#### [test_framework/key.py](test_framework/key.py)
+#### [key.py](test_framework/key.py)
Test-only secp256k1 elliptic curve implementation
-#### [test_framework/bignum.py](test_framework/bignum.py)
+#### [bignum.py](test_framework/bignum.py)
Helpers for script.py
-#### [test_framework/blocktools.py](test_framework/blocktools.py)
+#### [blocktools.py](test_framework/blocktools.py)
Helper functions for creating blocks and transactions.
### Benchmarking with perf