[Zope3-dev] Debugging Zope 3 unit tests with Wing IDE

[Jim Fulton]

FWIW, I've been having a lot of success recently using Wing IDE's debugger
to debug Zope 3 unit tests. Whenever I run into a thorny case, I boot up
Wing and debug the test script in the Zope 3 root directory, giving as
arguments:

   -d

      This tells the test script to use unittest's debug api so that unittest
      doesn't catch errors, and

   package_name (e.g. Zope.App.OFS.Services)

      which narrows the test execution to the specified package, since I'm
      usually debugging specific tests.

This works really well. Wing's debugging facilities are much nicer than pdb.

Jim

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