Duration: 35:10

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Speaker(s):
Sarika Sinha (IBM)

Writing good code is the most important task of software development and this does not complete without debugging and fixing bugs. The Eclipse Java IDE provides many debugging tools and views for users to debug effectively and efficiently. Eclipse users spend a lot of time in debugging code and every new debugging feature in Eclipse helps the users to be productive in fixing bugs. Debugging in Eclipse Platform and JDT is continuously evolving to provide tooling which can help users debug complex scenarios and spend less time in routine tasks.

I will talk about some exciting new features coming up in Photon (4.8) like :
• Provision of Launch Configuration templates under Friend of Eclipse Enhancement Program (FEEP)
• Provision of advanced source lookup which provides correct source lookup when runtime classpath is not fully known in advance
• Improved support for Lambda debugging

I will demonstrate some new concepts added in Oxygen (4.7) like:
• Trigger points
• Launch Group
• Return value after Step operation

I will also show few debugging Tips & Tricks like:
• Run to Line
• Step Filters
• Smart Step Into

Join the session and learn new debugging tricks in Eclipse.