4 May 2022

Testground Debugging

Testground

Testground is an open source tool developer by Protocol Labs. It’s designed to write large scale test plans for decentralized software.

URL: https://docs.testground.ai/

How to debug Testground

Testground is pretty cool, but debugging is sort of a pain because everything runs in docker containers.

Enable Debug Logging

TBDescribed

Use an actual debugger from the docker containers

TBDescribed

Use a stopped container

pass --run-cfg keep_containers=true, then in the logs, identify the container id,

You can then

› docker commit tg-compatibility-rust-ping-cbcgvdael22iqdbr32v0-single-1 debug/rust                                                        
sha256:ad85fe330130e6ad990d9ca7758e4e16864e956b3cf32e4a8f791263f7a94465

› docker run -it --rm --entrypoint sh debug/rust

Laurent Senta

I wrote software for large distributed systems, web applications, and even robots. Now I focus on decentralization, overly-engineered software, and frugal innovation. I help companies around the world build products through SingularGarden.