debug.md

Debugging

Node v7.7.0 and Later

Node legacy debugger is deprecated. Node Inspector and DevTools are recommended instead. To enable debugging, start UIVeri5 with debug option (or its alias inspect): uiveri5 --debug. To stop on a certain line, add debugger to your test:

myElement.getText().then(text => {
  debugger;
  expect(text).toEqual("myText");
});

Older Node Releases

Use legacy debugger and set breakpoints with browser.pause() and browser.debugger()

myElement.getText().then(function (text) {
  browser.debugger();
  expect(text).toEqual("myText");
});

For more details, see:

• https://github.com./angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/debugging.md
• angular/protractor#4307
• https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/debugging-getting-started/

VSCode

You can use debugger in VSCode, as stated above in protractor debugging guide, but because UIVeri5 executable uses child_process.fork() instead of require(), you can't use it directly on it. You have to target uiveri5/src/cli.js.

{
      "type": "node",
      "request": "launch",
      "name": "debug uiveri5",
      "program": "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@ui5/uiveri5/src/cli",
      "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/",
      "args": [
         "conf.js"
      ]
  }