Testing Corda

Automated Tests

Corda has a maintained suite of tests that any contributing developers must maintain and add to if new code has been added.

There are several distinct test suites each with a different purpose;

Unit tests: These are traditional unit tests that should only test a single code unit, typically a method or class.

Integration tests: These tests should test the integration of small numbers of units, preferably with mocked out services.

Smoke tests: These are full end to end tests which start a full set of Corda nodes and verify broader behaviour.

Other: These include tests such as performance tests, stress tests, etc, and may be in an external repo.

These tests are mostly written with JUnit and can be run via gradle. On windows run gradlew test integrationTest smokeTest and on unix run ./gradlw test integrationTest smokeTest or any combination of these three arguments.

Before creating a pull request please make sure these pass.

Manual Testing

Manual testing would ideally be done for every set of changes merged into master, but practically you should manually test anything that would be impacted by your changes. The areas that usually need to be manually tested and when are below;

Node startup - changes in the node or node:capsule project in both the Kotlin or gradle or the cordformation gradle plugin.

Sample project - changes in the samples project. eg; changing the IRS demo means you should manually test the IRS demo.

Explorer - changes to the tools/explorer project.

Demobench - changes to the tools/demobench project.

How to manually test each of these areas differs and is currently not fully specified. For now the best thing to do is ensure the program starts, that you can interact with it, and that no exceptions are generated in normal operation.

TODO: Add instructions on manual testing