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.
Separates the act of creating a TestNode object from starting the node.
The test_framework now keeps track of its list of TestNodes, and test
writers can call start_node() and stop_node() without having to update
the self.nodes list.
This commit uses the new skip test funcationality added in
232b6665bc to skip the zmq tests if the
python zmq module is not available or if bitcoind has been built without
zmq support.
This removes the zmq-specific logic from test_runner.py. In general it's
better if test_runner.py has no knowledge of special cases for
individual tests and is a general purpose test runner.
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.
Pieter Wuille