Since the Spend transaction command requires some parameters, this implements the parameter-getting logic on the JSONRPC side as well. This allows us to implement an end-to-end functional test of the transaction flow using an external way to broadcast it. From the input coins creation, to the Spend transaction broadcast.
Minisafed blackbox tests
Here we test minisafed by starting it on a regression testing Bitcoin network,
and by then talking to it as an user would, from the outside.
Python scripts are used for the automation, and specifically the pytest framework.
Credits: this test framework was taken and adapted from revaultd, which was itself adapted from C-lightning's test framework.
Test dependencies
Functional tests dependencies can be installed using pip. Use a virtual environment.
# Create a new virtual environment, preferably.
python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
# Get the deps
pip install -r tests/requirements.txt
Additionaly you need to have bitcoind installed on your computer, please
refer to bitcoincore for installation. You may use a
specific bitcoind binary by specifying the BITCOIND_PATH env var.
Running the tests
From the root of the repository:
pytest tests/
Tips and tricks
Logging
We use the Live Logging
functionality from pytest. It is configured in (pyproject.toml)[../pyproject.toml] to
output INFO-level to the console. If a test fails, the entire DEBUG log is output.
You can override the config at runtime with the --log-cli-level option:
pytest -vvv --log-cli-level=DEBUG -k test_startup
Note that we record all logs from daemons, and we start them with log_level = "debug".
Test lints
Just use black.
More
See the environment variables in test_framework/utils.py.