Copy this doc up from the bok_choy tests.

It's just as relevant to unit tests and I wish I had seen it earlier.

Stress the transient nature of this debugging step.
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Kevin Falcone
2016-02-11 13:08:00 -05:00
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@@ -270,6 +270,14 @@ will drop you into pdb on error. This lets you go up and down the stack
and see what the values of the variables are. Check out `the pdb
documentation <http://docs.python.org/library/pdb.html>`__
Use this command to put a temporary debugging breakpoint in a test.
If you check this in, your tests will hang on jenkins.
::
from nose.tools import set_trace; set_trace()
Note: More on the ``--failed`` functionality
* In order to use this, you must run the tests first. If you haven't already
@@ -407,7 +415,8 @@ test case method.
During acceptance test execution, log files and also screenshots of
failed tests are captured in test\_root/log.
Use this command to put a debugging breakpoint in a test.
Use this command to put a temporary debugging breakpoint in a test.
If you check this in, your tests will hang on jenkins.
::