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[Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:08:18 Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I'm not sure if everyone is aware of this, but if you're trying to
> 
> debug a story/pagetest, you can put this anywhere in the doctest:
>      >>> stop()
> 
> This drops you into a pdb prompt, with stdout properly redirected back
> to the console.
> 
> But what's really cool about this is that you can then go to another
> shell and type:
> 
>      % make LPCONFIG=testrunner run
> 
> and now you'll be able to hit launchpad.dev with the exact state of
> your page test.  This is great if you want to see why a particular
> element that your test expects is missing, or whatever, without having
> to manually reproduce all the state in the test.
> 
> There's one small problem though.  This sometimes rebuilds wadl-
> testrunner.xml, which causes a spurious diff you have to manually
> revert.  I'm wondering if there's an easy way to avoid regenerating
> that file?
> 
> -Barry

Hi Barry,

Do we have a debugging tips page on the dev wiki?

This would be a very good example of something to have there :)

Tim