While Arquillian tests can be easily executing using existing IDE, Ant and Maven test plugins, debugging tests are not as straightforward (but by no means difficult). The extra steps documented in this chapter are only relevant for tests which are not executed in the same JVM as the test runner. These steps to not apply to tests that are run in a local bean container (e.g., Weld SE), which can be debugged just like any other unit test.

We'll assume in this chapter that you are already using Eclipse and you already have the test plugin installed for the testing framework you are using (JUnit or TestNG).