Limit Ether balance on tests accounts

Question

I have create a truffle project with this command:

truffle unbox react

I have looked at test/simplestorage.js and add a test:

contract("SimpleStorage", accounts => {
     it("my test", async () => {
         console.log(await web3.eth.getBalance(accounts[1]));
     });
 });

I can see test accounts are credited with 100 Ether. Is there a way to choose how much ether i can put in each account test ?

Thanks

Answer 1

100 Ether is the default amount held by Ganache accounts.

You can change it :

• If you use the Ganache desktop client, go to the parameter (in the right hand corner) > Accounts & Keys. Then change the account default balance field and click on the button save and restart.
• If you use the command line client (ganache-cli) you can use the tag -e to change the default test accounts balance.