Forge is a fast and flexible Ethereum testing framework, inspired by Dapp
If you are looking into how to consume the software as an end user, check the CLI README.
For more context on how the package works under the hood, look in the code docs.
Writing tests in Javascript/Typescript while writing your smart contracts in Solidity can be confusing. Forge lets you write your tests in Solidity, so you can focus on what matters.
contract Foo {
uint256 public x = 1;
function set(uint256 _x) external {
x = _x;
}
function double() external {
x = 2 * x;
}
}
contract FooTest {
Foo foo;
// The state of the contract gets reset before each
// test is run, with the `setUp()` function being called
// each time after deployment.
function setUp() public {
foo = new Foo();
}
// A simple unit test
function testDouble() public {
require(foo.x() == 1);
foo.double();
require(foo.x() == 2);
}
}
When testing smart contracts, fuzzing can uncover edge cases which would be hard to manually detect with manual unit testing. We support fuzzing natively, where any test function that takes >0 arguments will be fuzzed, using the proptest crate.
An example of how a fuzzed test would look like can be seen below:
function testDoubleWithFuzzing(uint256 x) public {
foo.set(x);
require(foo.x() == x);
foo.double();
require(foo.x() == 2 * x);
}
- test
- Simple unit tests
- Gas costs
- DappTools style test output
- JSON test output
- Matching on regex
- DSTest-style assertions support
- Fuzzing
- Symbolic execution
- Coverage
- HEVM-style Solidity cheatcodes
- Structured tracing with abi decoding
- Per-line gas profiling
- Forking mode
- Automatic solc selection
- Simple unit tests
- build
- Can read DappTools-style .sol.json artifacts
- Manual remappings
- Automatic remappings
- Multiple compiler versions
- Incremental compilation
- Can read Hardhat-style artifacts
- Can read Truffle-style artifacts
- install
- update
- debug
- CLI Tracing with
RUST_LOG=forge=trace
The below is modified from Dapp's README
We allow modifying blockchain state with "cheat codes". These can be accessed by
calling into a contract at address 0x7109709ECfa91a80626fF3989D68f67F5b1DD12D
,
which implements the following methods:
-
function warp(uint x) public
Sets the block timestamp tox
. -
function roll(uint x) public
Sets the block number tox
. -
function store(address c, bytes32 loc, bytes32 val) public
Sets the slotloc
of contractc
toval
. -
function load(address c, bytes32 loc) public returns (bytes32 val)
Reads the slotloc
of contractc
. -
function sign(uint sk, bytes32 digest) public returns (uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s)
Signs thedigest
using the private keysk
. Note that signatures produced viahevm.sign
will leak the private key. -
function addr(uint sk) public returns (address addr)
Derives an ethereum address from the private keysk
. Note thathevm.addr(0)
will fail withBadCheatCode
as0
is an invalid ECDSA private key. -
function ffi(string[] calldata) external returns (bytes memory)
Executes the arguments as a command in the system shell and returns stdout. Note that this cheatcode means test authors can execute arbitrary code on user machines as part of a call todapp test
, for this reason all calls toffi
will fail unless the--ffi
flag is passed. -
function deal(address who, uint256 amount)
: Sets an account's balance -
function etch(address where, bytes memory what)
: Sets the contract code at some address contract code -
function prank(address from)
: Performs the next smart contract call as another address (prank just changes msg.sender. Tx still occurs as normal) -
function startPrank(address from)
: Performs smart contract calls as another address. The account impersonation lasts until the end of the transaction, or untilstopPrank
is called. -
function stopPrank()
: Stop calling smart contracts with the address set atstartPrank
-
function expectRevert(bytes calldata expectedError)
: Tells the evm to expect that the next call reverts with specified error bytes.
The below example uses the warp
cheatcode to override the timestamp & expectRevert
to expect a specific revert string:
interface Vm {
function warp(uint256 x) external;
function expectRevert(bytes calldata) external;
}
contract Foo {
function bar(uint256 a) public returns (uint256) {
require(a < 100, "My expected revert string");
return a;
}
}
contract MyTest {
Vm vm = Vm(0x7109709ECfa91a80626fF3989D68f67F5b1DD12D);
function testWarp() public {
vm.warp(100);
require(block.timestamp == 100);
}
function testBarExpectedRevert() public {
vm.expectRevert("My expected revert string");
// This would fail *if* we didnt expect revert. Since we expect the revert,
// it doesn't, unless the revert string is wrong.
foo.bar(101);
}
function testFailBar() public {
// this call would revert, causing this test to pass
foo.bar(101);
}
}
A full interface for all cheatcodes is here:
interface Vm {
// Set block.timestamp (newTimestamp)
function warp(uint256) external;
// Set block.height (newHeight)
function roll(uint256) external;
// Loads a storage slot from an address (who, slot)
function load(address,bytes32) external returns (bytes32);
// Stores a value to an address' storage slot, (who, slot, value)
function store(address,bytes32,bytes32) external;
// Signs data, (privateKey, digest) => (r, v, s)
function sign(uint256,bytes32) external returns (uint8,bytes32,bytes32);
// Gets address for a given private key, (privateKey) => (address)
function addr(uint256) external returns (address);
// Performs a foreign function call via terminal, (stringInputs) => (result)
function ffi(string[] calldata) external returns (bytes memory);
// Performs the next smart contract call with specified `msg.sender`, (newSender)
function prank(address) external;
// Performs all the following smart contract calls with specified `msg.sender`, (newSender)
function startPrank(address) external;
// Stop smart contract calls using the specified address with prankStart()
function stopPrank() external;
// Sets an address' balance, (who, newBalance)
function deal(address, uint256) external;
// Sets an address' code, (who, newCode)
function etch(address, bytes calldata) external;
// Expects an error on next call
function expectRevert(bytes calldata) external;
}
We support the logging functionality from Hardhat's console.log
.
If you are on a hardhat project, import hardhat/console.sol
should just work if you use forge test --hh
.
If no, there is an implementation contract here. We currently recommend that you copy this contract, place it in your test
folder, and import it into the contract where you wish to use console.log
, though there should be more streamlined functionality soon.
Usage follows the same format as Hardhat:
import "./console.sol";
...
console.log(someValue);
If you are working in a repo with NPM-style imports, like
import "@openzeppelin/contracts/access/Ownable.sol";
then you will need to create a remappings.txt
file at the top level of your project directory, so that Forge knows where to find these dependencies.
For example, if you have @openzeppelin
imports, you would
forge install openzeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts
(this will add the repo tolib/openzepplin-contracts
)- Create a remappings file:
touch remappings.txt
- Add this line to
remappings.txt
@openzeppelin/=lib/openzeppelin-contracts/
Over the next months, we intend to add the following features which are available in upstream dapptools:
- Stack Traces: Currently we do not provide any debug information when a call fails. We intend to add a structured printer (something like this which will show all the calls, logs and arguments passed across intermediate smart contract calls, which should help with debugging.
- Invariant Tests
- Interactive Debugger
- Code coverage
- Gas snapshots
- Symbolic EVM
We also intend to add features which are not available in dapptools:
- Even faster tests with parallel EVM execution that produces state diffs instead of modifying the state
- Improved UX for assertions:
- Check revert error or reason on a Solidity call
- Check that an event was emitted with expected arguments
- Support more EVM backends (revm, geth's evm, hevm etc.) & benchmark performance across them
- Declarative deployment system based on a config file
- Formatting & Linting (maybe powered by
Solang)
dapp fmt
, an automatic code formatter according to standard rules (likeprettier-plugin-solidity
)dapp lint
, a linter + static analyzer, like a combination ofsolhint
and slither
- Flamegraphs for gas profiling