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| author | Robert Chung <robertchung97@gmail.com> | 2018-12-02 13:32:13 +0800 |
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| committer | Robert Chung <robertchung97@gmail.com> | 2018-12-02 13:40:43 +0800 |
| commit | 4a907faf44b5ca899a316c4646df97b351060423 (patch) | |
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| parent | 757623e381aba24b81a2365cf19037d3d96bf945 (diff) | |
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Added information about debugging and examples on how to run subsets of tests.
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diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst index 4ac93565..f9c4d9d9 100644 --- a/docs/contributing.rst +++ b/docs/contributing.rst @@ -98,6 +98,20 @@ To run a subset of tests, you can use filters: ``./scripts/soltest.sh -t TestSuite/TestName --ipcpath /tmp/testeth/geth.ipc``, where ``TestName`` can be a wildcard ``*``. +For example, here's an example test you might run; +``./scripts/soltest.sh -t "yulOptimizerTests/disambiguator/*" --no-ipc --no-smt``. +This will test all the tests for the disambiguator. + +If you want to debug using GDB, make sure you build differently than the "usual". +For example, you could run the following command in your ``build`` folder: +:: + + cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug .. + make + +This will create symbols such that when you debug a test using the ``--debug`` flag, you will have acecess to functions and varialbes in which you can break or print with. + + The script ``./scripts/tests.sh`` also runs commandline tests and compilation tests in addition to those found in ``soltest``. |