Script Debugging with Dependency Windows and Breakpoint Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing complexity of applications due to numerous components and dependencies leads to a rise in errors, hindering efficient execution and error resolution, which current debugging mechanisms fail to address effectively.
Innovation Solution
A computing system that converts scripts into an executable format, sets breakpoints, and generates a window to illustrate dependencies among components, allowing for contextual information display and machine learning-assisted error prediction and correction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the number of components and dependencies in applications increases to enhance capabilities, then application functionality is improved, but error frequency increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary debugging system that acts as a mediator between the complex application components and the developer. This intermediary automatically tracks dependencies, monitors variable states, and identifies error sources, thereby managing the reliability issues that arise from increased application complexity without reducing the application's capabilities.
2Reliability
If traditional debugging mechanisms are used to resolve errors, then error detection is possible, but debugging efficiency is reduced due to lack of contextual information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by automatically tracking and recording dependency relationships and variable states before errors occur. The system proactively monitors component interactions and maintains contextual information throughout execution, so that when an error is detected, the contextual data is already available to accelerate the debugging process.
Solution Approach 2:
The debugging system incorporates feedback mechanisms that continuously provide information about component states, variable values, and dependency relationships during script execution. This feedback loop enables developers to see the actual runtime context, making error resolution more efficient by providing real-time diagnostic information.
3Reliability
If repetitive program execution is performed to identify errors, then error identification is achieved, but computing resources are wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the execution context through dependency graphs and variable state snapshots. Instead of requiring multiple physical executions to understand program behavior, the system generates contextual representations that can be analyzed without re-executing the entire script, thereby reducing computing resource consumption while maintaining accurate error identification.
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AI summary
Computing systems, methods, and non-transitory storage media are provided for receiving a script to be executed, in response to the script being in a non-executable format, converting the script into an executable script, receiving one or more breakpoints corresponding to the executable script, generating a window to illustrate one or more dependencies among components corresponding to the breakpoints, receiving an input regarding a correction at a breakpoint, and executing the executable script or a portion of the executable script according to the received input.