Unit Testing
============

Click the
![double check](images/a-user-testing-icon.png)
 icon to get to the "Solidity Unit Testing" plugin. 
 
 If you haven't used this plugin before and not seeing `double check` icon, you have to activate it from Remix plugin manager.
 
Go to the plugin manager (by click the ![plug](images/a-plug.png) icon) and load up the unit testing plugin.

![](images/a-unit-testing-from-pm.png)

Now `double check` icon will appear on the left side icon bar. Clicking on icon will show UI related to unit testing.

![](images/a-unit-testing-feature.png)

Generate Test File
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Click the button `Generate test file` to create a new solidity file in the current folder suffixed with `_test`. This file contains the minimum you need for running unit testing.

Write Tests
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Write tests to check the functionality of your contract. Remix injects a built-in `assert` library which can be used for testing. Visit the library documentation [here](./assert_library).

Apart from this, Remix allows usage of some special functions to make testing more structural. They are:

* `beforeEach()` - Runs before each test
* `beforeAll()` - Runs before all tests
* `afterEach()` - Runs after each test
* `afterAll()` - Runs after all tests

To get started, see [this](https://github.com/ethereum/remix/blob/master/remix-tests/tests/examples_4/SafeMath_test.sol) for sample implementation.

Run Tests
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Click the button "Run tests" to executes all tests whose box has been checked below (by default all). The execution is run in a separate environment and the result is displayed below.

![](images/a-unit-testing-run-result.png)

Continuous integration
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remix-tests is also a CLI, it can be used in a continuous integration environement which support node.js.
Please find more information in the [remix-test repository](https://github.com/ethereum/remix/tree/master/remix-tests)

See also: example [Su Squares contract](https://github.com/su-squares/ethereum-contract/tree/e542f37d4f8f6c7b07d90a6554424268384a4186) and [Travis build](https://travis-ci.org/su-squares/ethereum-contract/builds/446186067) that uses remix-tests for continuous integration testing.