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There are generally two ways of running a test in a debugger.
- Within the IDE. If you setup eclipse properly, almost all the tests are runnable directly in eclipse. Right click on the test and select "Run As -> JUnit Test" (or "Debug As"). The test should just run.
- Externally via jpda. This is much harder. By default, mvn will fork the unit tests into a JVM that doesn't have JPDA enabled. However, it can be done. First, set your MAVEN_OPTS like:
Then you would need to run the test like "mvn test -Dtest=MyTest -Dsurefire.fork.mode=never". When mvn starts, you can attach your external debugger to it and assign breakpoints and such.Code Block export JPDA_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n" export MAVEN_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=192m -Xmx512M $JPDA_OPTS"
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