E2E tests often fail because validators miss signing or proposing blocks. Often this is because e.g. there's a lot of disruption in the network or it takes a long time to start up all the nodes.
This changes the test criteria to only check for 3 signed/proposed blocks, rather than a fraction of the expected blocks. This should be enough to catch most issues, apart from performance problems causing nodes to miss signing/proposing, but we may want separate tests for those sorts of things.
E2E tests often fail due to fast sync stalls causing the validator to miss signing blocks. This increases the tolerance for missed signatures to 2/3 to allow validators to spend more time starting up.
* Don't use state sync for nodes starting at initial height.
* Also remove stopped containers when cleaning up.
* Start nodes in order of startAt, mode, name to avoid full nodes starting before their seeds.
* Tweak network waiting to avoid halts caused by validator changes and perturbations.
* Disable most tests for seed nodes, which aren't always able to join consensus.
* Disable `blockchain/v2` due to known bugs.
Closes#5291. Adds a randomized testnet generator. Nightly CI job will be submitted separately. A few of the testnets can be a bit flaky, even after disabling known-faulty behavior and making minor tweaks, and the larger networks may be too resource-intensive to run in CI - this will be optimized separately.
This was a missing test case from the old P2P tests removed in #5453, which makes sure that all nodes are able to peer with each other regardless of how they discover peers.
Fixes#2795, since the default CI testnet uses a combination of (partially meshed) persistent peers and PEX-based seed nodes.
Partial fix for #5291.
This adds a basic set of test cases for core network invariants. Although small, it is sufficient to replace and extend the current set of P2P tests. Further test cases can be added later.
Erik Grinaker
Marko
Callum Waters