Debugging techniques for workflows

The debugging capabilities in workflows could be better. However, they are not nonexistent; there are some tools available, some handy debugging actions, and some useful environment variables to use when debugging. The first one we’ll jump into is the act tool, which helps you manage your workflows.

act workflow debugging tool

If the prerequisites and the installation of the tool were successful, you should be able to go into the root directory of a repository cloned previously that has been authenticated with the account that the Personal Access Token (PAT) was created under, and type the following command, which will list all the workflows in that repository:

 gh act -l

This will give you a view similar to that in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.16 – Successful run of act on a repo

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