Debugging Gaia Tests with PyCharm
Posted At : February 4, 2013 1:07 PM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
Related Categories: MozWebQA, Firefox OS
I've written about PyCharm before. I is my IDE of preference for Python, and I must admit it does an admirable job for html and Javascript as well. I really like its interactive debugging features, which I use all the time when writing and, more often, fixing, Web QA tests. As I have now started working on Gaia (the UI for Firefox OS) tests as well I wanted to try to use Pycharm to interactively debug them as well. I asked my colleague Dave Hunt to help me figure out how to do so during our work week in San Francisco and together we were able to come up with the following solution:
This post assumes you have the gaia-ui-tests project open in PyCharm.