Debugging Applications

Debugging applications can be a challenging task; it takes programming abilities, understanding of the code flow and specific bug finding abilities, on top of these there can be multiple complications, environment, closed libraries, different browsers and servers.

I write this document in the hope that it will help you improve your debugging abilities, so you can minimize your debugging time and also code better to prevent bugs!

* This tutorial uses many techniques from PHP Tequila framework but can be easily used for other languages / frameworks.

In this document:

Editor selection
The best starting point is the editor selection; use an editor that helps with indentation, function identification, and common syntax highlighting. Line numbers is an absolute must!

For PHP I strongly recommend: Zend / Eclipse, for general purposes Notepad++ (be sure to add/enable the function list plug in).

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