Check if zmq is installed in tests, update docs

If ZMQ is enabled, check whether it's installed before running ZMQ tests.
If it isn't, disable ZMQ and print a warning.

Also add dependency info to test docs, so users know ZMQ is required
before running tests, and so they know how to install it.

When following the build instructions before this change then trying
to run the RPC tests, a unix user would get an error when python
tried to import zmq.

There may be other dependencies that should be added to the docs,
particularly ones for non-unix systems. This is the only unlisted
dependency I encountered using linux.
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Elliot Olds 2016-03-10 03:12:40 -08:00
parent 409f843f2e
commit 2ab835ae6c
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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

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@ -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
=============

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@ -41,6 +41,15 @@ if not vars().has_key('ENABLE_UTILS'):
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
#Create a set to store arguments and create the passOn string