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**Tip!** You do not need to stop and restart the development version after each change, you can just execute `Reload Window` from the command palette.
### Validate your changes
To test the changes you launch a development version of VS Code on the workspace `vscode`, which youare currently editing.
To test the changes you launch a development version of VS Code on the workspace `vscode`, which you are currently editing.
OS X and Linux
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### Debugging
Code has a multi-process architecture and your code is executed in different processes:
* The **render** process runs the UI code inside the Shell window. To debug code running in the **renderer** process, launch the Chrome Developers Tools using the `Developer: Toggle Developer Tools` command from the Command Palette.
The **render** process runs the UI code inside the Shell window. To debug code running in the **renderer** process you can:
* The **extension host** process runs code implemented by a plugin. To debug extensions (including those packaged with code) which run in the **extension host** process, you can use VS Code itself. Switch to the Debug viewlet, choose the `Attach to Extension Host` configuration, and press `F5`.
* Debug using VSCode:
* Install [Debugger for Chrome](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/msjsdiag.debugger-for-chrome) extension
* Launch a development version of VS Code with `--remote-debugging-port=9222`
* Choose `Attach to VSCode` launch configuration from the launch dropdown and start debugging
* Debug using Chrome Developers Tools, use the `Developer: Toggle Developer Tools` command from the Command Palette in your development VS Code.
The **extension host** process runs code implemented by a plugin. To debug extensions (including those packaged with code) which run in the **extension host** process, you can use VS Code itself. Switch to the Debug viewlet, choose the `Attach to Extension Host` configuration, and press `F5`.
### Unit Testing
Press `SHIFT+CMD+T` (`CTRL+SHIFT+T` on Windows) to start the unit tests or run the tests directly from a terminal by running `mocha` from the `vscode` folder. The [/test README](test/README.md) has complete details on how to run and debug tests, as well as how to produce coverage reports.