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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ the Bitcoin client software, see http://www.bitcoin.org.
License
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-Bitcoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
+Bitcoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development process
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ submitter will be asked to start a discussion (if they haven't already) on the
The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a good thing.
Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches if the code doesn't
-match the project's coding conventions (see `doc/coding.md`) or are
+match the project's coding conventions (see [doc/coding.md](doc/coding.md)) or are
controversial.
The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
@@ -56,17 +56,7 @@ lots of money.
### Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
-submit new unit tests for old code.
-
-Unit tests for the core code are in `src/test/`. To compile and run them:
-
- cd src; make -f makefile.unix test
-
-Unit tests for the GUI code are in `src/qt/test/`. To compile and run them:
-
- qmake BITCOIN_QT_TEST=1 -o Makefile.test bitcoin-qt.pro
- make -f Makefile.test
- ./bitcoin-qt_test
+submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run (assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: `make check`
Every pull request is built for both Windows and Linux on a dedicated server,
and unit and sanity tests are automatically run. The binaries produced may be
@@ -78,5 +68,4 @@ for the build/test scripts.
Large changes should have a test plan, and should be tested by somebody other
than the developer who wrote the code.
-
See https://github.com/bitcoin/QA/ for how to create a test plan.