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When things are not behaving as they should, breakpoints are a useful tool to help focus any debugging investigations. A breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place, and therefore a means of acquiring knowledge about a program during its execution.
Use of the term "bug" has been traced back to Thomas Edison, who in 1889 used the word to imply "that some imaginary insect ... secreted itself inside [a phonograph] and is causing all the trouble." The more modern usage is thought to have been popularized by a team working on the Mark II Relay Calculator with Grace Murray Hopper at Harvard: On investigating why operations were being impeded, they discovered an actual bug — a moth — in a relay. In removing it, the operators really had debugged the machine.
Breakpoints in Appway
You can set breakpoints in the script language and on process tasks within Appway after configuring breakpoint support in the Studio. An overview of all existing (active and disabled) breakpoints is available from the "Breakpoints" tab found under "Administration > System > Script Language".
The "Enable breakpoints" recipe guides you through setting up and using breakpoints, step by step.
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