diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/config.js b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/config.js
index 92e0b6d21d..a397462fd4 100755
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/config.js
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/config.js
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ module.exports = {
         dev: {
             sourcemaps: true,
             embedtemplates: false
+        },
+        test: {
+            sourcemaps: false,
+            embedtemplates: true
         }
     },
     sources: {
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/modes.js b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/modes.js
index dc2947f2cc..21609cdcf8 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/modes.js
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/modes.js
@@ -10,4 +10,14 @@ function setDevelopmentMode(cb) {
     return cb();
 };
 
-module.exports = { setDevelopmentMode: setDevelopmentMode };
+function setTestMode(cb) {
+
+    config.compile.current = config.compile.test;
+
+    return cb();
+};
+
+module.exports = { 
+    setDevelopmentMode: setDevelopmentMode,
+    setTestMode: setTestMode
+ };
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/tasks/test.js b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/tasks/test.js
index b5239d35e7..255fe17435 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/tasks/test.js
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulp/tasks/test.js
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ function runUnitTestServer() {
         autoWatch: true,
         port: 9999,
         singleRun: false,
+        browsers: ['ChromeDebugging'],
         keepalive: true
     })
     .start();
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulpfile.js b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulpfile.js
index ec9b7bc508..542d45c479 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulpfile.js
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/gulpfile.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 const { src, dest, series, parallel, lastRun } = require('gulp');
 
 const config = require('./gulp/config');
-const { setDevelopmentMode } = require('./gulp/modes');
+const { setDevelopmentMode, setTestMode } = require('./gulp/modes');
 const { dependencies } = require('./gulp/tasks/dependencies');
 const { js } = require('./gulp/tasks/js');
 const { less } = require('./gulp/tasks/less');
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ exports.build = series(parallel(dependencies, js, less, views), testUnit);
 exports.dev = series(setDevelopmentMode, parallel(dependencies, js, less, views), watchTask);
 exports.watch = series(watchTask);
 // 
-exports.runTests = series(js, testUnit);
-exports.runUnit = series(js, runUnitTestServer, watchTask);
-exports.testE2e = series(testE2e);
+exports.runTests = series(setTestMode, parallel(js, testUnit));
+exports.runUnit = series(setTestMode, parallel(js, runUnitTestServer), watchTask);
+exports.testE2e = series(setTestMode, parallel(testE2e));
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/test/config/karma.conf.js b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/test/config/karma.conf.js
index 501e43b043..f6fc5ca1be 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/test/config/karma.conf.js
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/test/config/karma.conf.js
@@ -103,6 +103,13 @@ module.exports = function (config) {
         // CLI --browsers Chrome,Firefox,Safari
         browsers: ['ChromeHeadless'],
 
+        customLaunchers: {
+            ChromeDebugging: {
+                base: 'Chrome',
+                flags: ['--remote-debugging-port=9333']
+            }
+        },
+
         // allow waiting a bit longer, some machines require this
 
         browserNoActivityTimeout: 100000,     // default 10,000ms