debugging.md

Debugging

Table of Contents

• Debugging
  • Unit Tests
    • VS Code

Unit Tests

Mocha unit tests can be debugged to allow testing the code while in development as well as diagnosing issues with the unit tests themselves.

VS Code

The following can be added to .vscode/launch.json to enable a VS task to launch the unit tests in debug mode.

"configurations": [
    {
        "type": "node",
        "request": "launch",
        "name": "Mocha All",
        "program": "${workspaceFolder}/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha",
        "args": [
            "-r",
            "ts-node/register",
            "--timeout",
            "999999",
            "--colors",
            "${workspaceFolder}/test/**/*Test.ts",
        ],
        "console": "integratedTerminal",
        "internalConsoleOptions": "neverOpen",
        "protocol": "inspector"
    },
...
]