The existing code provides two randomness mechanisms for test purposes:
- g_insecure_rand_ctx (with its wrappers InsecureRand*), which during tests is
initialized using either zeros (SeedRand::ZEROS), or using environment-provided
randomness (SeedRand::SEED).
- g_mock_deterministic_tests, which controls some (but not all) of the normal
randomness output if set, but then makes it extremely predictable (identical
output repeatedly).
Replace this with a single mechanism, which retains the SeedRand modes to control
all randomness. There is a new internal deterministic PRNG inside the random
module, which is used in GetRandBytes() when in test mode, and which is also used
to initialize g_insecure_rand_ctx. This means that during tests, all random numbers
are made deterministic. There is one exception, GetStrongRandBytes(), which even
in test mode still uses the normal PRNG state.
This probably opens the door to removing a lot of the ad-hoc "deterministic" mode
functions littered through the codebase (by simply running relevant tests in
SeedRand::ZEROS mode), but this isn't done yet.
fae43a97ca test: Seed test RNG context for each test case, print seed (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Debugging failing unit tests is hard if the failure is non-deterministic and the seed is not known.
Fix that by printing the seed and making it possible to set the seed from outside.
ACKs for top commit:
davereikher:
Tested ACK fae43a97ca
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c84c2b8c92 tests: Test for expected return values when calling functions returning a success code (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
Test for expected return values when calling functions returning a success code (instead of discarding the return values).
**Note to reviewers:** The following commands can be used to verify that the only text fragments added in this PR are `BOOST_CHECK(`, `!` and `)` :
```
$ git diff HEAD~1 | grep -E '^[\-][^\-]' | cut -b2- > before.txt
$ git diff HEAD~1 | grep -E '^[\+][^\+]' | cut -b2- > after.txt
$ cat after.txt | sed 's/BOOST_CHECK(//g' | sed 's/));/);/g' | tr -d '!' > after-sed.txt
$ diff -u before.txt after-sed.txt
$
```
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