Debugging tests with delve
I'm not familiar with delve, but if it can work on a compiled binary, just compile your tests using the -c
flag:
-c
Compile the test binary to pkg.test but do not run it
(where pkg is the last element of the package's import path).
The file name can be changed with the -o flag.
Then run delve on the output.
Use dlv test
:
$ dlv test -- -test.v
Type 'help' for list of commands.
(dlv) continue
=== RUN TestReadFileError
--- PASS: TestReadFileError (0.00s)
=== RUN TestReadFile
--- PASS: TestReadFile (0.00s)
[..]
PASS
Process 8014 has exited with status 0
(dlv) quit
Process 8014 has exited with status 0
You can also pass -test.run
to select tests to run (just like go test -run
).
Internally, this is the same as Flimzy's answer (it compiles the test binary with go test -c
), but more streamlined and won't leave .test files for you to clean up.