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| Paul |
 Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 4:52 am Post subject: Debugging message flow |
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What is the best way to debug and test a message flow?
Thanks in advance,
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| waugh |
| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| what versions of softwares you are using? i think that helps us a bit... |
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| Paul |
| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 5:28 am Post subject: |
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What kind of testing and debugging do you want to do?
For unit testing - I prefer to develop a set of test messages, and then include trace nodes at key points in the flow. Then I can run the messages through the flow, and see if they generate the right output. I can also see crucial pieces of the message transformation through the trace output.
The test cases can then be rolled into integration testing and performance testing at a later time.
For developmental debugging, I'll tend to put lots of stuff into the Environment subtree, and again expose that through the trace nodes. I reserve using the step-by-step debugger for those cases where I can't tell what steps are occurring from the outputs. Although user-level tracing and debug-level tracing will also show that without needing to step through the flow.
But this is all just my own personal opinion - and not necessarily best practices.
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| Paul |
| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks Jeff,just tell me one more thing.There are existing flows which I have to debug.how to put stuff into Environment tree?? |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 6:04 am Post subject: |
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You'd have to change the flows.
For existing flows, your best bet is probably a usertrace.
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