Test: Ability to select and start a launch using keyboard

[michelkaporin]

• Any OS @aeschli
• Any OS @ramya-rao-a

Complexity: 1

Refs: #16613
We have introduced an ability to select and launch debug configuration through the command palette.

Verify:

• Open command palette (Ctrl+E) and type: debug with space at the end. The list of all debug configurations listed in launch.json should appear.
• Open command palette and type >Debug: Select and Start Debugging, option should appear, upon clicking should be presented with a list of all launch configs.
• Correct debug configuration started upon selection.
• Correct debug configuration is selected in the drop-down menu of debug view upon config running (Ref Select box debug configuration listener #20985).

[jrieken]

@michelkaporin fyi - please set milestone and testplan-item label

[michelkaporin]

@jrieken I don't have permissions for this yet, unfortunately. Thanks for the notice anyway!

[jrieken]

doh. didn't know that... hope that changes soon

[MartinSGill]

I keep getting confused between "task" and "launch" configurations, that is I try to use the command pallet to start a debug "task" and wonder why there's nothing there.

In my mental model I see both as doing the same thing: running something. One is interactive (i.e. debug) while the other isn't.

Might this be an opportunity to merge/unify these somehow under a single keyword/alias?

e,g.

> Run: "Attach to VS Code" (debug)
> Run: "watch" (task)

[michelkaporin]

@MartinSGill Thank you for your comment. Task and debug concepts are different. The first one is used to automate tasks like building, packaging, testing or deploying, whereas the other one configures the way you want to debug your program. Merging those two concepts into one would be wrong from simple software design perspective, and would lead to those concepts collision, as essentially they target two different purposes. Therefore, reference to them is kept under different keywords/aliases.

Please see the links below for further reference.
https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/debugging and
https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/tasks

[aeschli]

Verified on Linux
Version 1.10.0-insider
Commit 64cccfc
Date 2017-02-23T09:13:27.511Z

[ramya-rao-a]

Verified on Mac
Version 1.10.0-insider
Commit 64cccfc
Date 2017-02-23T09:13:27.511Z