Although script_valid.json and script_invalid.json are loaded correctly by the JSON interpreter used by bitcoin core, these same files are often used by other libraries and do not necessarily load correctly due to the fact that newlines contained inside strings are not valid and must instead use the escape character \n. The files tx_valid.json and tx_invalid.json handle this correctly, so I've changed the formatting in script_valid.json and script_invalid.json to mirror those files. |
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data | ||
accounting_tests.cpp | ||
alert_tests.cpp | ||
allocator_tests.cpp | ||
base32_tests.cpp | ||
base58_tests.cpp | ||
base64_tests.cpp | ||
bctest.py | ||
bignum.h | ||
bip32_tests.cpp | ||
bitcoin-util-test.py | ||
bloom_tests.cpp | ||
buildenv.py.in | ||
checkblock_tests.cpp | ||
Checkpoints_tests.cpp | ||
coins_tests.cpp | ||
compress_tests.cpp | ||
crypto_tests.cpp | ||
DoS_tests.cpp | ||
getarg_tests.cpp | ||
hash_tests.cpp | ||
key_tests.cpp | ||
main_tests.cpp | ||
Makefile | ||
miner_tests.cpp | ||
mruset_tests.cpp | ||
multisig_tests.cpp | ||
netbase_tests.cpp | ||
pmt_tests.cpp | ||
README.md | ||
rpc_tests.cpp | ||
rpc_wallet_tests.cpp | ||
script_P2SH_tests.cpp | ||
script_tests.cpp | ||
scriptnum_tests.cpp | ||
serialize_tests.cpp | ||
sighash_tests.cpp | ||
sigopcount_tests.cpp | ||
skiplist_tests.cpp | ||
test_bitcoin.cpp | ||
timedata_tests.cpp | ||
transaction_tests.cpp | ||
uint256_tests.cpp | ||
univalue_tests.cpp | ||
util_tests.cpp | ||
wallet_tests.cpp |
Notes
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 configure some other framework (we want as few impediments to creating unit tests as possible).
The build system is setup to compile an executable called "test_bitcoin" that runs all of the unit tests. The main source file is called test_bitcoin.cpp, which simply includes other files that contain the actual unit tests (outside of a couple required preprocessor directives). The pattern is to create one test file for each class or source file for which you want to create unit tests. The file naming convention is "<source_filename>_tests.cpp" and such files should wrap their tests in a test suite called "<source_filename>_tests". For an examples of this pattern, examine uint160_tests.cpp and uint256_tests.cpp.
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/.