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Date Published
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Mike Mackrory
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2182
Language
English
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Summary

Debugging tools are essential for optimizing and perfecting solutions in complex applications, services, and systems. Debugging is the process of identifying actual and potential bugs within code and fixing them, with a debugging tool helping to complete this process more efficiently. A good debugging tool should identify the source of the problem and suggest how to resolve it or improve the code. The goal of a debugging tool is not to replace engineers but to augment their intelligence and problem-solving abilities. Various tools, such as Visual Studio, Chrome DevTools, ReSharper, PyCharm Debugger, Xcode Debugger, Android Studio Debugger, dbForge SQL Tools, Telerik Fiddler, Eclipse IDE, WinDbg, IntelliJ IDEA, and Sauce Labs, offer features like breakpoints, watches, step-through and step-over options, autocompletion, refactoring support, optimization suggestions, and real device cloud testing. The choice of debugging tool depends on the development environment and language used, but all are well-designed and intuitive with a wealth of features to learn. Investing time to explore these tools can have an exponential payoff in terms of efficiency and code quality.