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Blockchain By Example

By : Bellaj Badr, Richard Horrocks, Xun (Brian) Wu
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Blockchain By Example

By: Bellaj Badr, Richard Horrocks, Xun (Brian) Wu

Overview of this book

The Blockchain is a revolution promising a new world without middlemen. Technically, it is an immutable and tamper-proof distributed ledger of all transactions across a peer-to-peer network. With this book, you will get to grips with the blockchain ecosystem to build real-world projects. This book will walk you through the process of building multiple blockchain projects with different complexity levels and hurdles. Each project will teach you just enough about the field's leading technologies, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Quorum, and Hyperledger in order to be productive from the outset. As you make your way through the chapters, you will cover the major challenges that are associated with blockchain ecosystems such as scalability, integration, and distributed file management. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn to build blockchain projects for business, run your ICO, and even create your own cryptocurrency. Blockchain by Example also covers a range of projects such as Bitcoin payment systems, supply chains on Hyperledger, and developing a Tontine Bank Every is using Ethereum. By the end of this book, you will not only be able to tackle common issues in the blockchain ecosystem, but also design and build reliable and scalable distributed systems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Truffle unit tests

I believe software developers are artists, and they love testing their chefd'oeuvres before deploying them. If you’re one of them then that's good news for you, as Truffle allows you to easily test your Solidity smart contract.

Under the hood, Truffle leverages an adapted version of the famous Mochajs (https://mochajs.org/) unit-testing framework to test Solidity contracts. Consequently, you can write your tests in JavaScript and take advantage of all the patterns Mocha provides. In addition, Truffle enables you to write tests using Solidity directly. In this section, I will opt for starting with JavaScript to implement all of the Tontine test cases, then we will explore how to use Solidity as a testing framework.

Let's start by writing our test files.

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