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| author | chriseth <chris@ethereum.org> | 2016-11-30 01:15:49 +0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2016-11-30 01:15:49 +0800 |
| commit | f70f8cf06aea5dcd44b6256b040e05d2a3f7045d (patch) | |
| tree | d0e322b7a6d78f60a09abb835cacc97b267707b4 /docs | |
| parent | 071cbc4a9d78c3fad4136c88f0bb5919a19c28d7 (diff) | |
| parent | 83892399f08aba920cdd50b36bf928fd20cfff45 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1445 from ethereum/doc-testing
Explain how to run soltest
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diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst index 111fb932..42204d5c 100644 --- a/docs/contributing.rst +++ b/docs/contributing.rst @@ -59,3 +59,18 @@ for this project. Also, even though we do CI testing, please test your code and ensure that it builds locally before submitting a pull request. Thank you for your help! + +Running the compiler tests +========================== + +Solidity includes different types of tests. They are included in the application +called ``soltest``. Some of them require the ``cpp-ethereum`` client in testing mode. + +To run ``cpp-ethereum`` in testing mode: ``eth --test -d /tmp/testeth``. + +To run the tests: ``soltest -- --ipcpath /tmp/testeth/geth.ipc``. + +To run a subset of tests, filters can be used: +``soltest -t TestSuite/TestName -- --ipcpath /tmp/testeth/geth.ipc``, where ``TestName`` can be a wildcard ``*``. + +Alternatively, there is a testing script at ``scripts/test.sh`` which executes all tests. |