Parity proof-of-stake test setup

This is an integration test of AuRa PoS with three Parity nodes running locally.

Usage

To configure the repository and run tests, execute npm run all.

Requirements

The aura-pos branch should be checked out in ../parity-ethereum and built in debug mode.

Development

Adding new validator nodes and their keys

To add a new validator node, Parity should generate an account together with its secret key like so:

parity account new --config config/nodeX.toml --keys-path parity-data/nodeX/keys

given a node configuration file config/nodeX.toml and a newly created directory parity-data/nodeX/keys. config/nodeX.toml should then be amended with the validator address output by the above command. Also, the keys directory parity-data/nodeX/keys should be committed to the Git repository: it is a part of persistent Parity state which should be kept across state resets which happen when you run npm run all.

With this done, the node can be added to the list of started nodes in scripts/start-test-setup and to the list of stopped nodes in scripts/stop-test-setup.

If the new node has to be an initial validator, the network spec should reflect that: add the node's address to INITIAL_VALIDATORS in scripts/network-spec.

Simulation