Almost all test scripts currently need to override the __init__()
method. When they do that they need to call into super().__init__() as
the base class does some generic initialization.
This commit makes the base class __init__() call into set_test_params()
method. Individual test cases can override set_test_params() to setup
their test parameters.
After 122786d0e0, BIP65 activates at
a particular height (without regard to version numbers of blocks
below that height). Rewrite the BIP65 functional tests to take
this into account, and add a test case that exercises
OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY in a block where the soft-fork is active.
Also moves the bip65 functional test out of the extended test suite.
This commit fixes the module-level docstrings for the tests and helper
modules in qa. Many of these tests were uncommented previously - this
commit ensures that every test case has at least a minimum level of
commenting.
bip65-cltv.py is based on the earlier BIP66 soft-fork RPC test
implemented by Pieter Wuille's 819bcf9b99
bip65-cltv-p2p.py is based on the earlier BIP66 P2P test by Suhas
Daftuar's d76412b068
script.py is modified from the code in python-bitcoinlib, and provides tools
for manipulating and creating CScript objects.
bignum.py is a dependency for script.py
script_test.py is an example test that uses the script tools for running a test
that compares the behavior of two nodes, in a comptool- style test, for each of
the test cases in the bitcoin unit test script files, script_valid.json and
script_invalid.json. (This test is very slow to run, but is a proof of concept
for how we can write tests to compare consensus-critical behavior between
different versions of bitcoind.)
bipdersig-p2p.py is another example test in the comptool framework, which tests
deployment of BIP DERSIG for a single node. It uses the script.py tools for
manipulating signatures to be non-DER compliant.
John Newbery