All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend. The first step in debugging ...

For those of you who think debugging VBScript is a hassle. Actually, if you add the //X option when running a script, you can debug it in Visual Studio. Say goodbye to the life of testing while ...

When Apple was touting Automator as part of the OS X 10.4 Tiger upgrade, some people wondered whether AppleScript would be needed anymore. Now that we’ve seen Automator, AppleScript may be needed more ...

description The Script Debugger user interface \(UI\) displays information about breakpoints set, the call stack and line number of the currently executing script line, details about variables and ...

One of the most difficult things about PowerShell scripting is finding and fixing any bugs that exist within the script. This process isn't usually a big deal for short PowerShell scripts, but it can ...

Last week's post provided some tips and tricks for debugging scripts. This week's provides some even better ones! In last week’s posting, I mentioned the -x and -v options that can be used on the ...

A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugged systems ...

The error messages that are displayed when a script malfunctions range from effective to practically useless — especially when the scripts themselves are long ...

description JS Code Coverage Debug allows administrators and application developers to log the server-side scripts triggered during a user session and then review which lines of code the system ...