3e1ee31 [Tests] Adding unit tests for GetDifficulty in blockchain.cpp. (sean)
Pull request description:
blockchain.cpp has low unit test coverage. This commit is intended
to start improving its code coverage to reasonable levels. One or more
follow up commits will complete the task that this commit is starting
(though the usefulness of this commit is not dependent upon later
commits).
Note that these tests were not written based upon a specification of how
GetDifficulty *should* work, but rather how it actually *does* work. As
a result, if there are any bugs in the current GetDifficulty
implementation, these unit tests serve to lock them in rather than
expose them.
-- Why has blockchain.cpp been modified if this is a unit testing change?
Since the existing GetDifficulty function relies on a global variable,
chainActive, it was not suitable for unit testing purposes. Both the
existing GetDifficulty function and the unit tests now call through to
a new, more modular version of GetDifficulty that can work on any chain,
not just chainActive.
-- Why does blockchain_tests.cpp directly include blockchain.cpp instead
of blockchain.h?
While the new GetDifficulty function's signature is arguably better than
the old one's, it still isn't great, and doesn't seem to warrant inclusion
as part of the blockchain.h API, especially since only test code is
directly using it. If a better way of exposing the new GetDifficulty
function to unit tests exists, please mention it and the commit will be
updated accordingly.
-- Why is the test fixture named blockchain_difficulty_tests rather than
blockchain_tests?
The Bitcoin Core policy for naming unit test files is to match the the
file under test ("blockchain" becomes "blockchain_tests"). While this
commit complies with that, blockchain.cpp is a massive file, such that
having all of the unit tests in one file will tend towards disorder.
Since there will be a lot more tests added to this file, the intention
is to divide up different types of tests into different test fixtures
within the same file.
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blockchain.cpp has low unit test coverage. This commit is intended
to start improving its code coverage to reasonable levels. One or more
follow up commits will complete the task that this commit is starting
(though the usefulness of this commit is not dependent upon later
commits).
Note that these tests were not written based upon a specification of how
GetDifficulty *should* work, but rather how it actually *does* work. As
a result, if there are any bugs in the current GetDifficulty
implementation, these unit tests serve to lock them in rather than
expose them.
-- Why has blockchain.cpp been modified if this is a unit testing change?
Since the existing GetDifficulty function relies on a global variable,
chainActive, it was not suitable for unit testing purposes. Both the
existing GetDifficulty function and the unit tests now call through to
a new, more modular version of GetDifficulty that can work on any chain,
not just chainActive.
-- Why does blockchain_tests.cpp directly include blockchain.cpp instead
of blockchain.h?
While the new GetDifficulty function's signature is arguably better than
the old one's, it still isn't great, and doesn't seem to warrant inclusion
as part of the blockchain.h API, especially since only test code is
directly using it. If a better way of exposing the new GetDifficulty
function to unit tests exists, please mention it and the commit will be
updated accordingly.
-- Why is the test fixture named blockchain_difficulty_tests rather than
blockchain_tests?
The Bitcoin Core policy for naming unit test files is to match the the
file under test ("blockchain" becomes "blockchain_tests"). While this
commit complies with that, blockchain.cpp is a massive file, such that
having all of the unit tests in one file will tend towards disorder.
Since there will be a lot more tests added to this file, the intention
is to divide up different types of tests into different test fixtures
within the same file.
fafff1220 qa: Restore bitcoin-util-test py2 compatibility (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Currently `./configure && make check` will look for python3, then python2. As long as we support python2 (and use it as fallback), `make check` should run fine with both python2 and python3.
Fixes#11352 by @Zenitur
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46ce223d1 Add tests for CMerkleBlock usage with txids specified (James O'Beirne)
5ab586f90 Consolidate CMerkleBlock constructor into a single method (James O'Beirne)
Pull request description:
What started as a simple task to add test coverage ended up giving way to a light refactoring. This consolidates the mostly-identical `CMerkleBlock` constructors into one (using C++11 constructor delegation) and adds coverage for the by-txids construction case.
### Before
### After
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e94584858 scripted-diff: Use new naming style for insecure_rand* functions (Pieter Wuille)
2fcd9cc86 scripted-diff: Use randbits/bool instead of randrange where possible (Pieter Wuille)
2ada67852 Use randbits instead of ad-hoc emulation in prevector tests (Pieter Wuille)
5f0b04eed Replace rand() & ((1 << N) - 1) with randbits(N) (Pieter Wuille)
3ecabae36 Replace more rand() % NUM by randranges (Pieter Wuille)
efee1db21 scripted-diff: use insecure_rand256/randrange more (Pieter Wuille)
1119927df Add various insecure_rand wrappers for tests (Pieter Wuille)
124d13a58 Merge test_random.h into test_bitcoin.h (Pieter Wuille)
90620d66c scripted-diff: Rename cuckoo tests' local rand context (Pieter Wuille)
37e864eb9 Add FastRandomContext::rand256() and ::randbytes() (Pieter Wuille)
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8ad5bde Merge bctest.py into bitcoin-util-test.py (John Newbery)
95836c5 Use shared config file for functional and util tests (John Newbery)
89fcd35 Use an .ini config file for environment vars in bitcoin-util-test.py (John Newbery)
e9265df Change help_text in bitcoin-util-test.py to a docstring. (John Newbery)
ce58e93 Change bitcoin-util-test.py to use Python3 (John Newbery)
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9576b01 Enable xvfb in travis to allow running test_bitcoin-qt (Russell Yanofsky)
9e6817e Add new test_bitcoin-qt static library dependencies (Russell Yanofsky)
2754ef1 Add simple qt wallet test sending a transaction (Russell Yanofsky)
b61b34c Add braces to if statements in Qt test_main (Russell Yanofsky)
cc9503c Make qt test compatible with TestChain100Setup framework (Russell Yanofsky)
91e3035 Make test_bitcoin.cpp compatible with Qt Test framework (Russell Yanofsky)
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These are available in sandboxes without access to files or
devices. Also [they are safer and more straightforward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy-supplying_system_calls)
to use than `/dev/urandom` as reading from a file has quite a few edge
cases:
- Linux: `getrandom(buf, buflen, 0)`. [getrandom(2)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html)
was introduced in version 3.17 of the Linux kernel.
- OpenBSD: `getentropy(buf, buflen)`. The [getentropy(2)](http://man.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man2/getentropy.2)
function appeared in OpenBSD 5.6.
- FreeBSD and NetBSD: `sysctl(KERN_ARND)`. Not sure when this was added
but it has existed for quite a while.
Alternatives:
- Linux has sysctl `CTL_KERN` / `KERN_RANDOM` / `RANDOM_UUID`
which gives 16 bytes of randomness. This may be available
on older kernels, however [sysctl is deprecated on Linux](https://lwn.net/Articles/605392/)
and even removed in some distros so we shouldn't use it.
Add tests for `GetOSRand()`:
- Test that no error happens (otherwise `RandFailure()` which aborts)
- Test that all 32 bytes are overwritten (initialize with zeros, try multiple times)
Discussion:
- When to use these? Currently they are always used when available.
Another option would be to use them only when `/dev/urandom` is not
available. But this would mean these code paths receive less testing,
and I'm not sure there is any reason to prefer `/dev/urandom`.
Closes: #9676
05a55a6 Added EVENT_CFLAGS to test makefile to explicitly include libevent headers. (Karl-Johan Alm)
280a559 Added some simple tests for the RAII-style events. (Karl-Johan Alm)
7f7f102 Switched bitcoin-cli.cpp to use RAII unique pointers with deleters. (Karl-Johan Alm)
e5534d2 Added std::unique_ptr<> wrappers with deleters for libevent modules. (Karl-Johan Alm)
Defers to pre-defined version if found (e.g. protobuf). For protobuf case, the definitions are identical and thus include order should not affect results.
67dac4e Add unit tests for the CuckooCache (Jeremy Rubin)
c9e69fb Add CuckooCache implementation and replace the sigcache map_type with it (Jeremy Rubin)
GetTotalBlocksEstimate is no longer used and it was the only thing
the checkpoint tests were testing.
Since checkpoints are on their way out it makes more sense to remove
the test file than to cook up a new pointless test.
Pieter Wuille
Wladimir J. van der Laan
John Newbery
sean
James O'Beirne
MarcoFalke
Jim Posen
MeshCollider
Jonas Schnelli
Cory Fields
Jack Grigg
Russell Yanofsky
Jeremy Rubin
Karl-Johan Alm
BtcDrak
Patrick Strateman
Luke Dashjr
Gregory Maxwell
