Can I automate the truffle (smart contracts) test scripts?

Question

As we all aware about smart contract testing using truffle framework. Currently, we are writing the test scripts either in solidity or in java-script manually. Is there any way so that I can auto generate the test scripts for my smart contracts without doing hard coding?? What are the APIs for smart contracts? How to use those APIs?

Eventually, I want to develop a generic code which is capable of writing test scripts for smart contracts automatically, for which I just have to set the test cases in modular ways.

Answer 1

This question inspired me to create truffle-test-generator. It's not perfect, and follows my own style-guide for Truffle tests, but it should be useful for getting the initial boilerplate of a Truffle test done. It reads the json file of your compiled contracts and creates a describe block for all external and public functions. It can also create the input parameters for your constructor, you'll just have to set the initial values.

Answer 2

You are the one who knows what your smart contract functions need to do. It is not possible to generate test scripts for your functionality without you specifying the requirements for your functions. I guess you could create a tool that would allow you to specify these requirements in some sort of JSON format or some DSL, but ultimately I doubt that such a tool will save you a lot of time over just specifying your requirements directly with unit tests.