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+// Copyright (c) 2016 The btcsuite developers
+// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/*
+Package fullblocktests provides a set of block consensus validation tests.
+
+All of the generated test instances involve full blocks that are to be used for
+testing the consensus validation rules.  The tests are intended to be flexible
+enough to allow both unit-style tests directly against the blockchain code as
+well as integration style tests over the peer-to-peer network.  To achieve that
+goal, each test contains additional information about the expected result,
+however that information can be ignored when doing comparison tests between two
+independent versions over the peer-to-peer network.
+
+This package has intentionally been designed so it can be used as a standalone
+package for any projects needing to test their implementation against a full set
+of blocks that excerise the consensus validation rules.
+*/
+package fullblocktests