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| Smart contracts are normally tested using JavaScript. You develop the contract in Solidity, but use an Ethereum library to have a JavaScript model of your contract and write your tests with it. This saves a lot of time because you don’t have to spend the time manually executing the code yourself. | |||
| Writing automated tests when building smart contracts is of crucial importance, as your user's money is what's at stake. For this we're going to use **Buidler EVM**, a local Ethereum network designed for development that is built-in and the default network in **Buidler**. You don't need to setup anything to use it. In our tests we're going to use ethers.js to model and interact with the Ethereum contract we built in the previous section, and [Mocha](https://mochajs.org/) as our test runner. | |||
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IMO the text should focus on explaining why/how contracts are tested with JavaScript. What about something like:
Writing automated tests when building smart contracts is of crucial importance, as your user's money is what's at stake.
Smart contracts are normally tested using JavaScript. You develop the contract in Solidity, but use an Ethereum library to have a JavaScript model of your contract and write your tests with it. This saves a lot of time because you don't have to spend the time manually executing and signing transactions.
In this tutorial we're going to use Ether.js and Waffle (which uses Mocha under the hood). The tests will be running on Buidler EVM, a local Ethereum network designed for development that is built-in and the default network in Buidler. You don't need to setup anything to use it as we already did.
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