Debugging multiple files with AVA

[clitetailor]

Description

Currently, ava only support debugging one file a time only:

ava/profile.js

Lines 70 to 75 in 20f86d6

	if (cli.input.length === 0) {
	throw new Error('Specify a test file');
	}
	const file = path.resolve(cli.input[0]);
	const cacheDir = conf.cacheEnabled === false ? uniqueTempDir() : path.join(projectDir, 'node_modules', '.cache', 'ava');

When i debug some file, i have to navigate to that file before running VSCode debugger, which is inconvenient when i keep breakpoint in another file or when i want to debug all test files at once.

Config

Here is my current VSCode debugger configuration and my expected one:

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "type": "node",
      "request": "launch",
      "name": "Run AVA test",
      "program": "${workspaceFolder}/node_modules/ava/profile.js",
-     "args": ["${file}", "--serial"],
+     "args": ["./**/*ts", "--serial"],
+     "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
      "skipFiles": ["<node_internals>/**/*.js"]
    }
  ]
}

Relevant Links

Here is the link to my current project.

Environment

Name	Version
Node.js	12.10.0
win32	10.0.18362
ava	2.3.0
npm	6.10.3

[novemberborn]

Could you elaborate on what improvement you're suggesting?

[clitetailor]

@novemberborn Thanks for your quick reply. What i means is currently, i can inspect one file a time:

$ inspect node_modules/ava/profile.js ./test/file.js

Is it possible to inspect multiple files at once?

$ inspect node_modules/ava/profile.js ./test/**/*.js

[novemberborn]

Ah I see. profile.js fakes a regular worker process so that won't work with multiple files.

There's a few other approaches discussed here: #1505. Setting breakpoints in multiple test files won't ever be graceful though I think. I imagine you're better off debugging tests one at a time.

(I'm closing this issue for housekeeping purposes, but let's keep the conversation going.)