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This is really neat and I wish I had this around 10 years ago when I had to migrate Java apps.

However, these days I rarely need to debug programs while developing - I usually use some combination of TDD with unit/integration testing and it gets the job done with the added bonus of being easy to maintain down the road.

Of course if you're on a project where time to market is critical and you need to sacrifice tests, I suppose a debugger is required. But then again, you're probably not using Java either.




I don't see a conflict between using debugger and TDD.

I use the debugger to set breakpoints when running my unit tests all the time. It lets me understand the code better when developing it.

Also convenient when pasting in data from production into the unit test to find what is causing the bug.




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