Configuration

The Test Helpers require some light configuration to properly connect to your testing environment.

Where possible, this will be done automatically, but some scenarios require manual settings. This is achieved by calling the configure function:

// Apply configuration
require('@openzeppelin/test-helpers/configure')({ ... });

// Import the helpers
const { expectRevert } = require('@openzeppelin/test-helpers');

The configuration must be applied on all test files, before importing the helpers.

`provider`

Used by helpers that connect to the test environment via a web3 provider, like balance and time.

In a Truffle environment, the web3 provider will be pulled from Truffle’s global web3 instance. Otherwise, this value defaults to http://localhost:8545.

You can override this behavior and configure your own via the provider key:

require('@openzeppelin/test-helpers/configure')({
  provider: 'http://localhost:8080',
});

`singletons`

The singletons helper returns contract objects, and these have multiple settings that can be configured:

abstraction: the underlying contract abstraction type, 'web3' for web3-eth-contract and 'truffle' for @truffle/contract instances. Defaults to 'web3' unless a Truffle environment is detected.
defaultGas: how much gas to allocate when a transaction’s gas field is not specified. Defaults to 200k.
defaultSender: the sender address to use when a transaction’s from field is not specified. No default.

While automatic detection and defaults should cover most use cases, all values can be manually supplied:

require('@openzeppelin/test-helpers/configure')({
  singletons: {
    abstraction: 'web3',
    defaultGas: 6e6,
    defaultSender: '0x5a0b5...',
  },
});

About Truffle Migrations

Automatic Truffle environment detection does not work inside Truffle migrations, so the helpers must be manually configured there:

require('@openzeppelin/test-helpers/configure')({
  provider: web3.currentProvider,
  singletons: {
    abstraction: 'truffle',
  },
});