Practical Debugging at Scale: Do you Really Know How to Debug Effectively?

Most of us didn't learn debugging in university and just "picked it up on the job". That is shocking for such a crucial skill, even if testing debugging knowledge is known to be challenging. However, it’s never too late to learn how to use these underutilized debugger capabilities that many developers don't know about:
- Object marking
- Tracepoints
- Memory tracing
- Jump to line
- Renderers
- And more

Speaker: Shai Almog

#debugging #debug #debugger #programming #jetbrains

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[ahmedjaad]

Every time I watch one of these videos I am amazed how much I don't know how to use Intellij effectively, even after almost a decade of using it.

[this-is-bioman]

Jump to Line is what I have been always looking for! Why isn't this a standard feature of the IDE?

[Jebusankel]

I've heard Richard Stallman say that he always runs his emacs with a debugger attached and an exception breakpoint

[MrMikomi]

30:21 I can't see "Show Thread Objects..." I've googled "intellij "show thread objects"" and nothing turns up.

[jxr]

I would like to print the bytes read in a tracepoint in a method like this:

public int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
return in.read(b, off, len);
}

I have access to b and off in the exit point of a method breakpoint. However, I would need to access the returned value, which unfortunately is not stored in a variable in this case (and I cannot modify this code).

Does the debugger provide access to the return value in a method breakpoint?

(BTW: I cannot just execute the read in the breakpoint, because of side effects.)

[zebrastuhl]

Can I use the TraceLogging with a SpringBoot Application Running in Production?

[thejvmbender]

that stream debugging button does not exist in my intellij, on the rightes of step stream debug button, why ?

[TheDrezir]

That plugin does not work for me :( jump to line