HST, GeneXus distributor in Argentina, developed DebuGX
and launched it at the XIV GeneXus International Meeting. The tool facilitates
the correction of programming errors, providing all the features of a
conventional debugger and a set of additional features resulting from Beta
Tester requests and suggestions: remote debug, off-line debug, change of the
execution path, and others.
"We believe there are three reasons to develop a Debugger
for GeneXus," pointed out Matías Labombarda from HST: "The new architectures and
technologies that make it increasingly difficult to find programming errors
without a Debug tool, the demand from the community to have this functionality
in GeneXus, and the recurrent question from our prospects in the tool demos
about how to debug with GeneXus," he said.
"We spent three months in Research and Development at HST,
and when we found a solution, we worked another five months to achieve the
product that is already available online. We now have six upgrades and more than
600 builds," added Guillermo Pasquero from HST.
DebugGX can work with the code generators Visual Basic,
Visual Fox Pro, C/SQL, .NET and JAVA (2 and 3 tiers, win-form and web-form,
web-services).
"We are really happy about the reception that the product
has had in the international community. From the end of the event until June 30,
we had more than 200 test activations of the product in more than 15 countries,"
said Matías Labombarda.
Some DebuGX features:
- Monitoring of the execution, step by step.
- Pause / forward / rewind ... execution steps.
- Visualize the values of variables and attributes, line
by line, on GeneXus code.
- Follow-up of Calls / udf / udp.
- User-friendly graphic environment, tooltips with values
on the code.
- Remote debug.
- Off-line debug.
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http://www.debugx.com.ar