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Wladimir J. van der Laan 30ff3a2fc9 Merge #9602 : Remove coin age priority and free transactions - implementation `b421e6d` Update example bitcoin.conf (Alex Morcos) `7d4e950` Allow setting minrelaytxfee to 0 (Alex Morcos) `359e8a0` [cleanup] Remove coin age priority completely. (Alex Morcos) `f9b9371` [rpc] Remove priorityDelta from prioritisetransaction (Alex Morcos) `49be7e1` [rpc] Remove priority information from mempool RPC calls (Alex Morcos) `0315888` [test] Remove priority from tests (Alex Morcos) `f838005` No longer allow "free" transactions (Alex Morcos) `ad727f4` [rpc] sendrawtransaction no longer bypasses minRelayTxFee (Alex Morcos) `fe282ac` [cleanup] Remove estimatePriority and estimateSmartPriority (Alex Morcos) `400b151` [debug] Change -printpriority option (Alex Morcos) `272b25a` [mining] Remove -blockprioritysize. (Alex Morcos) `12839cd` [rpc] Remove estimatepriority and estimatesmartpriority. (Alex Morcos) `ddf58c7` wallet: Remove sendfree (MarcoFalke) Tree-SHA512: a9a4499405923ce794ef18f9e334dbbd59dfc73a3dc2df6f85cc9c62af6f353ec2eed9c2d5e58e904f918d0d7ab738f403dd4939d9bc2276136864fe63710782		2017-03-07 19:30:23 +01:00
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pull-tester	Merge #9823 : qa: Set correct path for binaries in rpc tests	2017-02-23 17:36:02 +01:00
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README.md	[qa][doc] Correct rpc test options in readme	2017-02-20 09:45:32 +08:00

README.md

The pull-tester folder contains a script to call multiple tests from the rpc-tests folder.

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 python3-zmq library is required. On Ubuntu or Debian it can be installed via:

sudo apt-get install python3-zmq

OS X

pip3 install pyzmq

Running tests

You can run any single test by calling

qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py <testname>

Or you can run any combination of tests by calling

qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py <testname1> <testname2> <testname3> ...

Run the regression test suite with

qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py

Run all possible tests with

qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py --extended

By default, tests will be run in parallel. To specify how many jobs to run, append --jobs=n (default n=4).

If you want to create a basic coverage report for the RPC test suite, append --coverage.

Possible options, which apply to each individual test run:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --nocleanup           Leave bitcoinds and test.* datadir on exit or error
  --noshutdown          Don't stop bitcoinds after the test execution
  --srcdir=SRCDIR       Source directory containing bitcoind/bitcoin-cli
                        (default: ../../src)
  --tmpdir=TMPDIR       Root directory for datadirs
  --tracerpc            Print out all RPC calls as they are made
  --coveragedir=COVERAGEDIR
                        Write tested RPC commands into this directory

If you set the environment variable PYTHON_DEBUG=1 you will get some debug output (example: PYTHON_DEBUG=1 qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py wallet).

A 200-block -regtest blockchain and wallets for four nodes is created the first time a regression test is run and is stored in the cache/ directory. Each node has 25 mature blocks (25*50=1250 BTC) in its wallet.

After the first run, the cache/ blockchain and wallets are copied into a temporary directory and used as the initial test state.

If you get into a bad state, you should be able to recover with:

rm -rf cache
killall bitcoind

Writing tests

You are encouraged to write tests for new or existing features. Further information about the test framework and individual RPC tests is found in qa/rpc-tests.