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Add suggestion to dev docs for debugging odd test failures

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Adds information about the -r flag for tox to refresh the venv when
running unitests as when this happens the failures can look odd or valid
failures can be missing when running on a local system but occur when running
in the gate.

Change-Id: Ie6f7f73dfdbd4e55e8ac0b8a66cf9661f5630a09
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Chris Yeoh
2015-02-05 10:02:29 +10:30
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@@ -48,6 +48,16 @@ To run the `ValidateIntegerTestCase.test_invalid_inputs` test method in
tox -epy27 test_utils.ValidateIntegerTestCase.test_invalid_inputs tox -epy27 test_utils.ValidateIntegerTestCase.test_invalid_inputs
Debugging strange test failures
-------------------------------
Things to try when there are odd test failures such as failure on
jenkins but not locally.
The venv can get stale. Force a refresh by adding the -r flag::
tox -r -e pep8
.. rubric:: Footnotes .. rubric:: Footnotes
.. [#f1] See :doc:`jenkins`. .. [#f1] See :doc:`jenkins`.