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| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qa/README.md | 11 | ||||
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@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run 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` +These tests can be run (if the [test dependencies](/qa) are installed) with: `qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py` The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows -and Linux, OSX, and that unit and sanity tests are automatically run. +and Linux, OS X, and that unit and sanity tests are automatically run. ### Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing diff --git a/qa/README.md b/qa/README.md index 758d1f47e5..2b476c4d8d 100644 --- a/qa/README.md +++ b/qa/README.md @@ -5,6 +5,17 @@ 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. +Test dependencies +================= +Before running the tests, the following must be installed. + +Unix +---- +The python-zmq library is required. On Ubuntu or Debian it can be installed via: +``` +sudo apt-get install python-zmq +``` + Running tests ============= diff --git a/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py b/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py index 7649c1183b..485888e9b4 100755 --- a/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py +++ b/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py @@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ if not vars().has_key('ENABLE_UTILS'): ENABLE_UTILS=0 if not vars().has_key('ENABLE_ZMQ'): ENABLE_ZMQ=0 + +# python-zmq may not be installed. Handle this gracefully and with some helpful info +if ENABLE_ZMQ: + try: + import zmq + except ImportError: + print("WARNING: \"import zmq\" failed. Setting ENABLE_ZMQ=0. " \ + "To run zmq tests, see dependency info in /qa/README.md.") + ENABLE_ZMQ=0 ENABLE_COVERAGE=0 |