Re: Debugging a unittest

[Ian Clelland]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Thomas Weholt wrote:

> I'm wondering if anybody has a hint on how to debug a unittest, or any
> other piece of code in django, for that matter, using a debugger like
> winpdb?
> I'm trying to to a winpdb manage.py test photo, which runs my unittest
> for my photo app, but winpdb crashes. Are there alternatives? What is
> the best way to do this?


 I don't know about winpdb, but if it's compatible with pdb, then I just do
this:

class ExampleTestCase(TestCase):
def test_something(self):
# some test code
# ...
import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
# ...
# rest of the test code

Then run your tests normally, and the debugger will automatically be invoked
at the 'pdb.set_trace()' line.

To speed things up, you can run
./manage.py test app.ExampleTestCase.test_something

And only the one test that you specify will actually be run.

-- 
Regards,
Ian Clelland


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Re: Debugging a unittest

[Shawn Milochik]

www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/pdb/

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