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What's the recommended way to start testing the Bitcoin Core source code.
Thanks in advance, Jim
Testing Bitcoin Core source code?
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What's the recommended way to start testing the Bitcoin Core source code?
testing for verification of bug fixes
See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/test/README.md which says:
To run the bitcoind tests manually, launch src/test/test_bitcoin. To recompile after a test file was modified, run make and then run the test again. If you modify a non-test file, use make -C src/test to recompile only what's needed to run the bitcoind tests.
To add more bitcoind tests, add BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE functions to the existing .cpp files in the test/ directory or add new .cpp files that implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections.
To run the bitcoin-qt tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt
To add more bitcoin-qt tests, add them to the src/qt/test/ directory and the src/qt/test/test_main.cpp file.
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1What do you mean by 'testing'? The source is available at github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/ , do what you will with it – chytrik – 2018-09-08T22:46:28.637
@chytrik I'm talking about testing for verification of bug fixes. I'm assuming that testing code will get me familiar enough with the code to start fixing bugs myself. – J. Dev – 2018-09-09T00:52:27.697