Introduction

Valkey uses a very simple C testing framework, built up over time but now based loosely off of Unity.

All test files are located at src/unit/test_*. A single test file can have multiple individual tests, and they must be of the form int test_<test_name>(int argc, char *argv[], int flags) {, where test_name is the name of the test. The test name must be globally unique. A test will be marked as successful if returns 0, and will be marked failed in all other cases.

The test framework also parses several flags passed in, and sets them based on the arguments to the tests.

Tests flags:

UNIT_TEST_ACCURATE: Corresponds to the --accurate flag. This flag indicates the test should use extra computation to more accurately validate the tests.
UNIT_TEST_LARGE_MEMORY: Corresponds to the --large-memory flag. This flag indicates whether or not tests should use more than 100mb of memory.
UNIT_TEST_SINGLE: Corresponds to the --single flag. This flag indicates that a single test is being executed.
UNIT_TEST_VALGRIND: Corresponds to the --valgrind flag. This flag is just a hint passed to the test to indicate that we are running it under valgrind.

Tests are allowed to be passed in additional arbitrary argv/argc, which they can access from the argc and argv arguments of the test.

Assertions

There are a few built in assertions that can be used, that will return from the current function with the correct error code. ASSERT assertions are for fatal errors and automatically return upon error. EXPECT assertions are for non-fatal errors and continue execution after an error. When an assertion fails, they will print out the line number that they failed on.

TEST_ASSERT(condition): Will evaluate the condition, and if it fails it will return 1 and print out the condition that failed.
TEST_EXPECT(condition): Will evaluate the condition, and if it fails it will print the condition that failed, record the failure, and continue.
TEST_ASSERT_MESSAGE(message, condition): Is like TEST_ASSERT, but prints the given message instead on failure.
TEST_EXPECT_MESSAGE(message, condition): Is like TEST_EXPECT, but prints the given message instead on failure.

Other utilities

If you would like to print out additional data, use the TEST_PRINT_INFO(info, ...) option, which has arguments similar to printf. This macro will also print out the function the code was executed from in addition to the line it was printed from.

Example test

int test_example(int argc, char *argv[], int flags) {
    TEST_ASSERT(5 == 5);
    TEST_ASSERT_MESSAGE("This should pass", 6 == 6);
    return 0;
}

Running tests

Tests can be run by executing:

make valkey-unit-tests
./valkey-unit-tests

Running a single unit test file

./valkey-unit-tests --single test_crc64.c

Will just run the test_crc64.c file.

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