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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

By : Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Anthony O'Dowd, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu
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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

By: Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Anthony O'Dowd, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu

Overview of this book

Blockchain and Hyperledger are open source technologies that power the development of decentralized applications. This Learning Path is your helpful reference for exploring and building blockchain networks using Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Hyperledger Composer. Blockchain Development with Hyperledger will start off by giving you an overview of blockchain and demonstrating how you can set up an Ethereum development environment for developing, packaging, building, and testing campaign-decentralized applications. You'll then explore the de facto language Solidity, which you can use to develop decentralized applications in Ethereum. Following this, you'll be able to configure Hyperledger Fabric and use it to build private blockchain networks and applications that connect to them. Toward the later chapters, you'll learn how to design and launch a network, and even implement smart contracts in chain code. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications by addressing the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Blockchain Quick Start Guide by Xun (Brian) Wu and Weimin Sun • Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger by Nitin Gaur et al.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Testing chaincode


Now we can write unit tests for our chaincode functions, we will use the in-built automated Go testing framework. For more information and documentation, visit Go's official website at: https://golang.org/pkg/testing/

The framework automatically seeks and executes functions with the following signature:

 func TestFname(*testing.T)

The function name Fname is an arbitrary name that must start with an uppercase letter.

Note that the test suite file containing unit tests must end with the suffix, _test.go; therefore, our test suite file will be named tradeWorkflow_test.go and placed in the same directory as our chaincode file. The first argument of the test function is of the type T, which provides functions for managing test states and supporting formatted test logs. The output of the test is written into the standard output, it can be inspected in the terminal.

SHIM mocking

The SHIM package provides a comprehensive mocking model that can be used to test chaincodes. In our unit...