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Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
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SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
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# The curl Test Suite
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# Running
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See the "Requires to run" section for prerequisites.
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In the root of the curl repository:
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./configure && make && make test
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To run a specific set of tests (e.g. 303 and 410):
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make test TFLAGS="303 410"
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To run the tests faster, pass the -j (parallelism) flag:
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make test TFLAGS="-j10"
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"make test" builds the test suite support code and invokes the 'runtests.pl'
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perl script to run all the tests. The value of `TFLAGS` is passed
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directly to 'runtests.pl'.
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When you run tests via make, the flags `-a` and `-s` are passed, meaning
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to continue running tests even after one fails, and to emit short output.
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If you'd like to not use those flags, you can run 'runtests.pl' directly.
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You must `chdir` into the tests directory, then you can run it like so:
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./runtests.pl 303 410
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You must have run `make test` at least once first to build the support code.
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To see what flags are available for runtests.pl, and what output it emits, run:
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man ./tests/runtests.1
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After a test fails, examine the tests/log directory for stdout, stderr, and
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output from the servers used in the test.
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## Requires to run
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- perl (and a unix-style shell)
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- python (and a unix-style shell, for SMB and TELNET tests)
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- python-impacket (for SMB tests)
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- diff (when a test fails, a diff is shown)
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- stunnel (for HTTPS and FTPS tests)
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- OpenSSH or SunSSH (for SCP and SFTP tests)
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- nghttpx (for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 tests)
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- An available `en_US.UTF-8` locale
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### Installation of python-impacket
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The Python-based test servers support both recent Python 2 and 3.
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You can figure out your default Python interpreter with python -V
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Please install python-impacket in the correct Python environment.
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You can use pip or your OS' package manager to install 'impacket'.
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On Debian/Ubuntu the package names are:
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- Python 2: 'python-impacket'
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- Python 3: 'python3-impacket'
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On FreeBSD the package names are:
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- Python 2: 'py27-impacket'
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- Python 3: 'py37-impacket'
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On any system where pip is available:
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- Python 2: 'pip2 install impacket'
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- Python 3: 'pip3 install impacket'
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You may also need to manually install the Python package 'six'
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as that may be a missing requirement for impacket on Python 3.
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### Port numbers used by test servers
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All test servers run on "random" port numbers. All tests should be written
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to use suitable variables instead of fixed port numbers so that test cases
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continue to work independent on what port numbers the test servers actually
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use.
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See [`FILEFORMAT`](FILEFORMAT.md) for the port number variables.
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### Test servers
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The test suite runs stand-alone servers on random ports to which it makes
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requests. For SSL tests, it runs stunnel to handle encryption to the regular
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servers. For SSH, it runs a standard OpenSSH server.
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The listen port numbers for the test servers are picked randomly to allow
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users to run multiple test cases concurrently and to not collide with other
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existing services that might listen to ports on the machine.
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The HTTP server supports listening on a Unix domain socket, the default
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location is 'http.sock'.
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For HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 testing an installed `nghttpx` is used. HTTP/3
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tests check if nghttpx supports the protocol. To override the nghttpx
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used, set the environment variable `NGHTTPX`. The default can also be
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changed by specifying `--with-test-nghttpx=<path>` as argument to `configure`.
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### Shell startup scripts
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Tests which use the ssh test server, SCP/SFTP tests, might be badly
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influenced by the output of system wide or user specific shell startup
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scripts, .bashrc, .profile, /etc/csh.cshrc, .login, /etc/bashrc, etc. which
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output text messages or escape sequences on user login. When these shell
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startup messages or escape sequences are output they might corrupt the
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expected stream of data which flows to the sftp-server or from the ssh
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client which can result in bad test behavior or even prevent the test server
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from running.
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If the test suite ssh or sftp server fails to start up and logs the message
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'Received message too long' then you are certainly suffering the unwanted
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output of a shell startup script. Locate, cleanup or adjust the shell
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script.
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### Memory test
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The test script will check that all allocated memory is freed properly IF
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curl has been built with the `CURLDEBUG` define set. The script will
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automatically detect if that is the case, and it will use the
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`memanalyze.pl` script to analyze the memory debugging output.
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Also, if you run tests on a machine where valgrind is found, the script will
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use valgrind to run the test with (unless you use `-n`) to further verify
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correctness.
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The `runtests.pl` `-t` option enables torture testing mode. It runs each
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test many times and makes each different memory allocation fail on each
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successive run. This tests the out of memory error handling code to ensure
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that memory leaks do not occur even in those situations. It can help to
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compile curl with `CPPFLAGS=-DMEMDEBUG_LOG_SYNC` when using this option, to
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ensure that the memory log file is properly written even if curl crashes.
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### Debug
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If a test case fails, you can conveniently get the script to invoke the
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debugger (gdb) for you with the server running and the same command line
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parameters that failed. Just invoke `runtests.pl <test number> -g` and then
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just type 'run' in the debugger to perform the command through the debugger.
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### Logs
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All logs are generated in the log/ subdirectory (it is emptied first in the
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runtests.pl script). They remain in there after a test run.
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### Log Verbosity
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A curl build with `--enable-debug` offers more verbose output in the logs.
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This applies not only for test cases, but also when running it standalone
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with `curl -v`. While a curl debug built is
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***not suitable for production***, it is often helpful in tracking down
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problems.
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Sometimes, one needs detailed logging of operations, but does not want
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to drown in output. The newly introduced *connection filters* allows one to
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dynamically increase log verbosity for a particular *filter type*. Example:
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CURL_DEBUG=ssl curl -v https://curl.se
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will make the `ssl` connection filter log more details. One may do that for
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every filter type and also use a combination of names, separated by `,` or
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space.
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CURL_DEBUG=ssl,http/2 curl -v https://curl.se
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The order of filter type names is not relevant. Names used here are
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case insensitive. Note that these names are implementation internals and
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subject to change.
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Some, likely stable names are `tcp`, `ssl`, `http/2`. For a current list,
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one may search the sources for `struct Curl_cftype` definitions and find
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the names there. Also, some filters are only available with certain build
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options, of course.
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### Test input files
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All test cases are put in the `data/` subdirectory. Each test is stored in
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the file named according to the test number.
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See [`FILEFORMAT`](FILEFORMAT.md) for a description of the test case file
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format.
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### Code coverage
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gcc provides a tool that can determine the code coverage figures for the
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test suite. To use it, configure curl with `CFLAGS='-fprofile-arcs
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-ftest-coverage -g -O0'`. Make sure you run the normal and torture tests to
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get more full coverage, i.e. do:
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make test
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make test-torture
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The graphical tool `ggcov` can be used to browse the source and create
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coverage reports on \*nix hosts:
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ggcov -r lib src
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The text mode tool `gcov` may also be used, but it doesn't handle object
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files in more than one directory correctly.
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### Remote testing
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The runtests.pl script provides some hooks to allow curl to be tested on a
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machine where perl can not be run. The test framework in this case runs on
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a workstation where perl is available, while curl itself is run on a remote
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system using ssh or some other remote execution method. See the comments at
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the beginning of runtests.pl for details.
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## Test case numbering
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Test cases used to be numbered by category ranges, but the ranges filled
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up. Subsets of tests can now be selected by passing keywords to the
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runtests.pl script via the make `TFLAGS` variable.
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New tests are added by finding a free number in `tests/data/Makefile.inc`.
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## Write tests
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Here's a quick description on writing test cases. We basically have three
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kinds of tests: the ones that test the curl tool, the ones that build small
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applications and test libcurl directly and the unit tests that test
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individual (possibly internal) functions.
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### test data
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Each test has a master file that controls all the test data. What to read,
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what the protocol exchange should look like, what exit code to expect and
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what command line arguments to use etc.
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These files are `tests/data/test[num]` where `[num]` is just a unique
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identifier described above, and the XML-like file format of them is
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described in the separate [`FILEFORMAT`](FILEFORMAT.md) document.
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### curl tests
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A test case that runs the curl tool and verifies that it gets the correct
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data, it sends the correct data, it uses the correct protocol primitives
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etc.
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### libcurl tests
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The libcurl tests are identical to the curl ones, except that they use a
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specific and dedicated custom-built program to run instead of "curl". This
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tool is built from source code placed in `tests/libtest` and if you want to
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make a new libcurl test that is where you add your code.
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### unit tests
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Unit tests are placed in `tests/unit`. There's a tests/unit/README
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describing the specific set of checks and macros that may be used when
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writing tests that verify behaviors of specific individual functions.
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The unit tests depend on curl being built with debug enabled.
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