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error10 ac40ed7800 Increase timeout waiting for pruned blk00000.dat
In my ever-growing list of test failures, I was seeing this one intermittently.

```
Running 2nd level testscript pruning.py...
Initializing test directory /tmp/testY5ypCv
Warning! This test requires 4GB of disk space and takes over 30 mins (up to 2 hours)
Mining a big blockchain of 995 blocks
Check that we haven't started pruning yet because we're below PruneAfterHeight
Success
Though we're already using more than 550MB, current usage: 587
Mining 25 more blocks should cause the first block file to be pruned
Assertion failed: blk00000.dat not pruned when it should be
  File "/home/error/bitcoinxt-0.11D/qa/rpc-tests/test_framework/test_framework.py", line 118, in main
    self.run_test()
  File "/home/error/bitcoinxt-0.11D/qa/rpc-tests/pruning.py", line 272, in run_test
    self.test_height_min()
  File "/home/error/bitcoinxt-0.11D/qa/rpc-tests/pruning.py", line 94, in test_height_min
    raise AssertionError("blk00000.dat not pruned when it should be")
Stopping nodes
Failed
```

After digging into the test, I found that the code is waiting 10 seconds for blk00000.dat to be deleted, and then throwing this failure if it still exists after 10 seconds.

I increased this amount, had the script print the actual time taken, and ran the test a few more times. The time taken ranged between 8 to 12 seconds. So, I feel that this timeout is too short.

After changing the timeout to 30 seconds, the test passes consistently.
(cherry picked from commit 3469911c89a48dd2fefe4d1c2a0c176256e14ee0)
2016-05-10 17:49:12 +02:00
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pull-tester Merge #7971: [qa] Refactor test_framework and pull tester 2016-05-09 17:06:44 +02:00
rpc-tests Increase timeout waiting for pruned blk00000.dat 2016-05-10 17:49:12 +02:00
README.md [qa] Update README.md 2016-05-06 12:43:46 +02:00

The pull-tester folder contains a script to call multiple tests from the rpc-tests folder.

Every pull request to the bitcoin repository is built and run through the regression test suite. You can also run all or only individual tests locally.

Test dependencies

Before running the tests, the following must be installed.

Unix

The python3-zmq library is required. On Ubuntu or Debian it can be installed via:

sudo apt-get install python3-zmq

Running tests

You can run any single test by calling

qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py <testname>

Or you can run any combination of tests by calling

qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py <testname1> <testname2> <testname3> ...

Run the regression test suite with

qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py

Run all possible tests with

qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py -extended

If you want to create a basic coverage report for the rpc test suite, append --coverage.

Possible options, which apply to each individual test run:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --nocleanup           Leave bitcoinds and test.* datadir on exit or error
  --noshutdown          Don't stop bitcoinds after the test execution
  --srcdir=SRCDIR       Source directory containing bitcoind/bitcoin-cli
                        (default: ../../src)
  --tmpdir=TMPDIR       Root directory for datadirs
  --tracerpc            Print out all RPC calls as they are made
  --coveragedir=COVERAGEDIR
                        Write tested RPC commands into this directory

If you set the environment variable PYTHON_DEBUG=1 you will get some debug output (example: PYTHON_DEBUG=1 qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py wallet).

A 200-block -regtest blockchain and wallets for four nodes is created the first time a regression test is run and is stored in the cache/ directory. Each node has 25 mature blocks (25*50=1250 BTC) in its wallet.

After the first run, the cache/ blockchain and wallets are copied into a temporary directory and used as the initial test state.

If you get into a bad state, you should be able to recover with:

rm -rf cache
killall bitcoind

Writing tests

You are encouraged to write tests for new or existing features. Further information about the test framework and individual rpc tests is found in qa/rpc-tests.