Displaying variable usage while debugging

Details Displaying variable usage while debugging Displaying variable usage while debugging

2005-11-01

2005-11-01

Nguyen-Ba, Antony (Department: 2192)

Data processing: software development, installation, and managem

Software program development tool

Testing or debugging

C717S127000, C714S038110, C715S763000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06961924

ABSTRACT:
Method, apparatus and article manufacture of debugging code. One embodiment provides a method of debugging code, comprising displaying a user interface screen of a debugging program; and in response to an event, displaying the value of the variable and a comment associated with the variable in the user interface screen in a location other than in an original location of the comment. In one embodiment, the comment associated with the variable comprises at least one of a user-drafted comment embedded in the code being debugged, an external comment retrieved from a data source external to the code being debugged, and a machine-generated comment indicative of a manner in which the variable is used. In one embodiment, the value and the comment are displayed as fly-over text.

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