Step debug when running a test

Step debug during a test run. Add the statement:

debugger;

to where you want to break in the code, and then run:

npm run testi -- -g 'p with id before'

where i in testi stands for inspect from node inspect. Also consider the alias:

npmtgi() ( npm run testi -- -g "$*" )

Note however that this does not work for tests that run the ourbigbook executable itself, since those spawn a separate process. TODO how to do it? Tried along:

const out = child_process.spawnSync('node', ['inspect', 'ourbigbook'].concat(options.args), {
  cwd: tmpdir,
  input: options.stdin,
  stdio: 'inherit',
});

but not working, related: stackoverflow.com/questions/23612087/gulp-target-to-debug-mocha-tests So for now, we are just printing the command being run as in:

cmd: cd _out/test/executable-ourbigbook.json-outputOutOfTree && ourbigbook --split-headers .

so you can just re-run it manually with node inspect as in:

cd _out/test/executable-ourbigbook.json-outputoutoftree && node inspect "../../../ourbigbook" --split-headers .

This works since the tmp directory is not deleted in case of failure.

Step debug when running a test

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