Is there any proven way of testing blockchains?

Question

please add details of process and tools which may need to be employed

Answer 1

i am interested in both functional as well as UAT perspective

Answer 2

- Peer-to-peer network
- Datastructure (Blockchain, Block, Transaction)
- Wallet/identity management
- Security
- Performance
- The domain besides the blockchain (the things you put in the transaction)
- smart contracts

Answer 3

What aspect of the blockchain do you want to test? And what kind of tests? Define that first and then I can help you :)

Answer 4

Well a blockchain is not different from any other application in that perspective. The only bottleneck is that you will need to simulate the peer-to-peer network. But you can also choose to UAT on just one server in the network, which makes it a lot easier. How deep you want to go is up to you.

The functional tests are a lot more difficult, in this case I guess you don't have a choise between network or just one server. You definitely want to test this on a full running blockchain network in a test environment. I know hyperledger has some kind of framework for private blockchains for this. Also IBM tests blockchains by deploying multiple docker container. I even read that you can use multiple AKKA actors to simulate the network. Just notice that this is difficult, but not unreachable.

I hope this makes things clear for you. Do you have more questions regarding blockchain (testing)?

Answer 5

however if you can tell me how to test the various components of blockchain, what components are identified for testing?