Comments on: Unit Testing Roadblocks http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/08/03/unit-testing-roadblocks/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:19:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Daniel Jalkut http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/08/03/unit-testing-roadblocks/#comment-376851 Daniel Jalkut Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:06:21 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=1765#comment-376851 I see - so if you wanted to debug a test you could run py.test, attach, and then invoke the desired test? Sounds pretty compelling. Thanks for sharing this approach. I like your idea of taking advantage of PyObjC for dev purposes. Daniel I see - so if you wanted to debug a test you could run py.test, attach, and then invoke the desired test? Sounds pretty compelling. Thanks for sharing this approach. I like your idea of taking advantage of PyObjC for dev purposes.

Daniel

]]> By: Michael http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/08/03/unit-testing-roadblocks/#comment-376737 Michael Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:39:12 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=1765#comment-376737 Daniel: It’s rare that I need to do that, especially since py.test will show a stack trace and the values of various variables and parameters if a test fails. I also use lots of logging, and py.test figures out what each test logged so that it can display it intelligently. If I do need to debug step-by-step, I can attach gdb to the Python process. It may also be possible to start up the tests from within gdb, but I think attaching is simpler (especially since py.test makes it easy to control which tests are run). Daniel: It’s rare that I need to do that, especially since py.test will show a stack trace and the values of various variables and parameters if a test fails. I also use lots of logging, and py.test figures out what each test logged so that it can display it intelligently. If I do need to debug step-by-step, I can attach gdb to the Python process. It may also be possible to start up the tests from within gdb, but I think attaching is simpler (especially since py.test makes it easy to control which tests are run).

]]> By: Daniel Jalkut http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/08/03/unit-testing-roadblocks/#comment-376717 Daniel Jalkut Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:58:51 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=1765#comment-376717 How do you debug when you need to step line by line? Is there a trick to get gdb to debug your py.test harness? Daniel How do you debug when you need to step line by line? Is there a trick to get gdb to debug your py.test harness?

Daniel

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