Blackbox/Whitebox tests docs missing

[juliancwirko]

Do we have any ETA for docs on the new testing approach? 👇

There are two flavors of integration tests:

Black-box tests: execution imitates the blockchain, no access to private contract functions;
White-box tests: the test has access to the inner workings of the contract.

It isn't easy to learn the topic.
At least from the Testing overview section.
And I believe the Rust Testing Framework (in a different section) is outdated.

Topics to add:

• What I can and can't test with whitebox/blackbox, very simple examples,
• Which SC methods exactly can I access in both cases, and which not? For example, how to test the self.send().esdt_local_burn() triggered through the endpoint. What initial setup is required, what roles, how to set them, etc?
• Simple initialization for both (whitebox/blackbox) - file structure, best practices, examples

The docs could be added systematically, not necessarily all at once, to split the work and gather feedback.

[andrei-marinica]

Hi!
I'm terribly sorry for the inconvenience.
The trouble is, we are in a process of redesigning a lot of the testing framework, syntax-wise. Some of the documentation we might write today would become obsolete in about a month or so.
I will try though to get some of my colleagues to write on the subjects that are not subject to change in the near future.