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  • Debugging Tips for Selenium Test Failures

    While Selenium has gained wide acceptance as a useful tool for automating browser-level tests, tracking down the cause of test failures can take significant time. Daniel Wellman has shared two of his best tricks to greatly reduce debugging time for failed Selenium tests.

  • FireAtlas ASP.NET AJAX Viewer

    FireAtlas is an extension to Firebug dedicated to ASP.NET AJAX debugging through providing PageRequestManager tracing and partial update inspection.

  • Historical Debugging in Visual Studio 2010

    Have you ever wanted to know what you program was doing 5 minutes ago? Ever wondered exactly what files it was opening instead of the one you wanted it to? Well Visual Studio 2010 has got you covered.

  • Website Performance Analysis with neXpert

    neXpert is an add-on to the popular Fiddler web debugging proxy. neXpert extends Fiddler's performance testing capabilities and simplifies the process of finding performance issues. Version 1.0 of neXpert is now available for download from Microsoft.

  • Fiddler Web Debugging Proxy

    Fiddler is a free proxy that logs HTTP(S) traffic, allowing developers to inspect requests and responses, set breakpoints, and tamper with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler also includes an event-based scripting subsystem and can be extended using any .NET language. A simple but powerful example of Fiddler's utility can be seen when trying to get a complete view of a site's AJAX traffic.

  • Presentation: Conceptual Algorithms

    In this talk from RubyFringe, Tom Preston-Werner talks about how he uses the scientific method for tracking down software problems. He demonstrates how he used this approach to track down a particularly sneaky memory leak in a Ruby app, and more.

  • Visual Studio 2010 Feature Focus: Profiling and Debugging Parallel Applications

    Visual Studio 2010 will bring a new focus on profiling and debugging parallel applications. These include tools for debugging code in terms of tasks instead of threads and profilers that show how efficiently the OS is scheduling threads.

  • Remote Linux Debugging in Visual Studio

    One of the biggest selling points for Visual Studio is its debugging experience. Even some of the most ardent critics of Microsoft's development tools reluctantly acknowledge its capabilities. Recently Miguel de Icaza's announced that the Mono team intends to leverage this power to improve debugging Mono applications running on Linux.

  • JRuby Roundup: Java Integration and Debugging (JSR-45) Improvements

    Some recent changes on the JRuby trunk improve Java Integration, which allows JRuby to interact with pure Java code faster and more conveniently. Also: Ruby code compiled with JRuby's (JIT) compiler can now make use of the JVMs debugging capabilities using JSR-45 (Debugging Support for Other Languages).

  • Deadlock Debugging for .NET

    Out of the box, .NET doesn't have any support for deadlock detection. Normally the way one checks for deadlocks is by attaching the debugger and examining each thread. Corneliu, creator of the GUI debugging tool HawkEye, has offered an alternative. His ACorns.Debugging tool works against most .NET programs, without recompiling them.

  • Klocwork Insight Brings Code Analysis to the Desktop

    Earlier this year Klocwork released a desktop product, Klocwork Insight, bringing their automated source code analysis features to individual developers. InfoQ recently sat down with Klocwork CTO Gwyn Fisher to discuss the product.

  • JProbe 8.0: The Java code, memory, and coverage profiler is back

    Quest Software recently released JProbe 8.0, a Java code, memory, and coverage profiler. While JProbe has been one of the leading Java profiling tools since the late 1990's, JProbe 8.0 aims to help Quest regain the leadership position in the profiling market with new Eclipse integration and a more competitive price point.

  • Review: Exception Hunter

    Unhandled exceptions are the bane of any application, especially those that run without user interaction. Red Gate has developed a product to detect and alert developers to these potential issues, but does it measure up?

  • Corneliu Tusnea has Released Hawkeye as Open Source

    Corneliu Tusnea, author of the debugging tool Hawkeye, has released the free version as an open source project on CodePlex.

  • InfoQ Video: Practices of an Agile Developer

    At NFJS Venkat Subramaniam, co-author with Andy Hunt of "Practices of an Agile Developer," shared his pragmatic approach to some of the important technical and non-technical factors contributing to project success, including: coding, developer attitude, debugging, mentoring and feedback.

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