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Bug 498469

Summary:	Improve Debugging Usability
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Sarika Sinha <sarika.sinha>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	Sarika Sinha <sarika.sinha>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, Lars.Vogel, Michael_Rennie, psuzzi
Version:	4.6
Target Milestone:	4.12 M3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	71020, 334991, 409065, 498426, 498428, 498493
Bug Blocks:

Description Sarika Sinha

2016-07-26 03:57:38 EDT

Taking the input from survey results on the Debugging pattern by various users spread over countries with varying experience, There are some debugging improvements we can take up -
- Bug 498426 - Breakpoints view: Allow to group by breakpoints by age
- Bug 71020 - [breakpoints] "Create Tracepoint" action (conditional breakpoint with side-effect)
- Bug 409065 - [variables] Enable "Show Logical Structure" by default 
- Bug 498428 - "Run to Line" on Ctrl+Alt+Click in annotation/line number rulers
- Bug 334991 - Variables view: Add history with recent expressions to the details pane

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2016-07-29 04:44:25 EDT

(In reply to Sarika Sinha from comment #0)

This change request emerged based on a scientific study on how developers debug, in discussion with Daniel Megert, Markus Keller, Sarika Sinha, and Moritz Beller.
Link to the study  -
http://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3Abf3325ce-f246-4977-91bc-785f877347b8?collection=education

Comment 2 Sarika Sinha

2018-04-24 04:52:03 EDT

Moving out of 4.8.

Comment 3 Sarika Sinha

2018-11-21 04:46:15 EST

Moving to 4.11

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2018-12-14 09:39:16 EST

Porting Angelo code minings for showing debug information inline would be a huge usability improvement.

Comment 5 Sarika Sinha

2019-02-18 05:23:04 EST

One item left to do.

Comment 6 Sarika Sinha

2019-05-17 05:39:24 EDT

Finally it is done.