debugger enhancements planned? Follow

Better breakpoint control is definitely needed. Line-level breakpoints are inadequate for Scala, as witnessed by the fact that many lines will, if bearing a breakpoint, stop far too many times. Apparently multiple bytecode blocks can be associated with a given line number (and file name).

I'm sure Scala will prove a real challenge for debugger support, but it's a pretty important capability to have.


Randall Schulz

And also the opposite is true: Often a line-level breakpoint will never break. In the snippet below, breakpoints at "//*** break" will not break.

class MySpecification extends Specification {
"smoke" should {
   "smoke 1" in {
    10 must be_== (11)  //*** break
   }
   "smoke 2" in {
    10 must be_== (10)  //*** break
   }
}
}


(new topic really)

Which has caused me to use to @Test instead. BUT, I just noticed today that this test will pass:

class MyJSpecification extends BaseSpecification with Expectations {
  @Test def smoke {
    10 must be_== (11)
  }
}