Testing Your Module

Testing your smart contracts is a crucial step in its development. Without proper testing you risk compromising the accounts of your users and with it the funds that they hold. For that reason we expect modules to be thoroughly tested before they are allowed on our platform.

This section of the documentation outlines the different testing methods. Each method is accompanied by an Abstract helper. These helpers assist you in setting up your testing environment.

Unit-testing

The lowest level of testing is unit testing. Unit tests allow you to easily test complex, self-contained logic. Because unit tests should be self-contained, any queries made to other contracts need to be mocked. These mocks act as “query catchers”, allowing you to specify a response for a specific query.

Sadly constructing these mock queries is time-consuming and involves a lot of boilerplate. Additionally, there are queries that your module should always support as they are part of its base implementation. For those reasons we created an abstract-testing package.

The abstract-testing provides you with some small abstractions that allow you to mock Smart and Raw queries with ease.

Mock Querier

The abstract-testing package contains a MockQuerierBuilder. It uses the common builder pattern to allow for efficient mock construction. Let’s see how!

Mocking Smart Queries

Mocking a smart-query with the MockQuerierBuilder is easy! You do it by calling the with_smart_handler function.

Example

#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
            let querier = MockQuerierBuilder::default()
                .with_smart_handler("contract_address", |msg| {
                    // handle the message
                    let MockModuleQueryMsg {} = from_json::<MockModuleQueryMsg>(msg).unwrap();
                    to_json_binary(&MockModuleQueryResponse {}).map_err(|e| e.to_string())
                })
                .build();
}

Mocking Raw Queries

Instead of manually mapping the key-value relation and it’s types, we can use the available contract storage types. Using the storage types ensures that the mock and its data operations are the same as in the actual implementation. It also saves us a lot of work related to key serialization.

This approach allow you to easily map Item and Map datastores.

Example

#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
            let querier = MockQuerierBuilder::default()
                .with_raw_handler("contract_address", |key: &str| {
                    // Example: Let's say, in the raw storage, the key "the_key" maps to the value "the_value"
                    match key {
                        "the_key" => to_json_binary("the_value").map_err(|e| e.to_string()),
                        _ => to_json_binary("").map_err(|e| e.to_string()),
                    }
                })
                .build();
}

Items and Maps

The MockQuerierBuilder also provides a with_items and with_maps function. These functions allow you to easily mock Item and Map datastores.

Abstract Querier

The easiest and best way to start using the querier is to use the AbstractMockQuerierBuilder::mocked_account_querier_builder() method. This method sets up a mock querier with an initial Abstract Account.

Integration Testing

Integration testing your contract with Abstract involves deploying your contract and any of its dependencies to a mock environment where Abstract is deployed. To make this as easy as possible we’ve created a abstract-client package that you can use to deploy Abstract and any of your modules to a mock environment. We will cover this client in the next section.

But first we need to cover some basics.

Cw-orchestrator Mock environment

Most of our Abstract tests use cw-orchestrator’s Mock struct that is backed by a cw-multi-test::App which you might be familiar with.

The Mock struct provides a simulation of the CosmWasm environment, enabling testing of contract functionalities.

Local Daemon Testing

Once you have confirmed that your module works as expected you can spin up a local node and deploy Abstract + your app onto the chain. You can do this by running the local_daemon example, which uses a locally running juno daemon to deploy to. At this point you can also test your front-end with the contracts.