Is it possible to drop into the debugger when a test fails?

[bhrutledge]

I wouldn't be surprised if this is covered elsewhere, but I haven't been able to find the answer.

I like to use pytest --pdb to start a debugger session at the point of a test failure, but I don't see an obvious way to do that with this extension. The docs for debugging tests suggest adding an explicit breakpoint.

I was able to get this behavior by enabling breakpoints for "User Uncaught Exceptions", but that also stopped on other exceptions that (somehow) didn't result in a test failure.

[brettcannon]

There currently isn't a way to do this. As you said, the suggestion is to set a breakpoint and launch the test under debugging. Please feel free to open a feature request for this!