Common tests for all clients to test against.

See descriptions of the different test formats in the official documentation at http://ethereum-tests.readthedocs.io/.

Note:
The format of BlockchainTests recently changed with the introduction of a new field sealEngine (values: NoProof | Ethash), see related JSON Schema change or BlockchainTest format docs for reference.

This means that you can skip PoW validation for NoProof tests but also has the consequence that it is not possible to rely on/check PoW related block parameters for these tests any more.

The following clients make use of the tests from this library. You can use these implementations for inspiration on how to integrate. If your client is missing, please submit a PR (requirement: at least some minimal test documentation)!

• Mana (Elixir): Docs, Test location: ethereum_common_tests
• go-ethereum (Go): Docs, Test location: tests/testdata
• Parity Ethereum (Rust): Docs, Test location: ethcore/res/ethereum/tests
• ethereumjs-vm (JavaScript): Docs, Test location: ethereumjs-testing dependency
• Trinity (Python): Docs, Test location: fixtures
• Pantheon (Java): Docs, Test Location: ethereum/referencetests/src/test/resources
• Nethermind (C#) Docs, Test Location: src/tests

We do versioned tag releases for tests and you should aim to run your client libraries against the latest repository snapshot tagged.

Generally the develop branch in ethereum/tests is always meant to be stable and you should be able to run your test against.

See the dedicated section in the docs on how to write new tests.

If you want to follow up with current tasks and what is currently in the works, have a look at the issues and PRs on this repo, there is also a Google spreadsheet with a list of current TODOs regarding test coverage.

Currently the C++ Aleth client is the reference client for generating tests. Have a look at issues and PRs tagged with testeth to get an idea what is currently being worked on regarding the test generation process.

Do not change test files in folders:

• StateTests
• BlockchainTests
• TransactionTests
• VMTests

It is being created by the testFillers which could be found at src folder. The filler specification and wiki are in development so please ask on gitter channel for more details.

If you want to modify a test filler or add a new test please contact @winsvega at https://gitter.im/ethereum/aleth

All files should be of the form:

{
	"test1name":
	{
		"test1property1": ...,
		"test1property2": ...,
		...
	},
	"test2name":
	{
		"test2property1": ...,
		"test2property2": ...,
		...
	}
}

Arrays are allowed, but don't use them for sets of properties - only use them for data that is clearly a continuous contiguous sequence of values.

(Requires virtualenv)

#> virtualenv -p python3 .env3
#> . .env3/bin/activate
#> python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Several basic checks against the test-set are performed to ensure that they have been filled and are formatted correctly. Currently, there are three types of checks that we can perform:

• make TEST_PREFIX.format: check that the JSON is formatted correctly.
• make TEST_PREFIX.valid: check that the JSON files are valid against the JSON schemas in ./JSONSchema.
• make TEST_PREFIX.filled: check that the JSON tests are filled with the correct source hashes against the fillers.

The constant TEST_PREFIX is a path prefix to the test-set you're interested in performing the checks on. For instance:

• make ./src/VMTestsFiller/vmArithmeticTest.format will check that all JSON files in ./src/VMTestsFiller/vmArithmeticTest are formatted correctly.
• make ./src.valid will check that all the JSON files in ./src are valid against the JSON schemas in ./JSONSchema.
• make ./BlockchainTests.filled will check that the source hashes in the JSON tests in ./BlockchainTests are the same as the hashes of the fillers in ./src/BlockchainTestsFiller.

These checks are all performed by the file ./test.py, which can be invoked on individual files as well. Run ./test.py with no arguments for help.

The above checkers are packaged together into sanitizers for each test-suite, marking which testsuites are passing which testers. See the TODOs in the Makefile to see which checkers are enabled for which test-suites.

• make sani: will run all passing sanitizers on all passing testsuites.

• make sani-TESTNAME: will run just the passing sanitizers for the given testsuite. TESTNAME can be one of:

  • vm: VMTests and VMTestsFiller
  • gs: GeneralStateTests and GeneralStateTestsFiller
  • bc: BlockchainTests and BlockchainTestsFiller
  • tx: TransactionTests and TransactionTestsFiller

The tests can also be run/filled with the same Makefile.

• make run: will use testeth to all the test-suites.
• make fill: will use testeth to fill all the test-suites.
• make TEST_PREFIX.run: runs a single testsuite.
• make TEST_PREFIX.fill: fills and formats a single testsuite.