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Carola Nitz
March 22, 2015
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Debugging in Swift
This talk will give you some helpful tips and tricks when you struggle with Debugging
Carola Nitz
March 22, 2015
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Debugging in Swift how hard can it be @_Caro _N,
22/3/2015
Why do we struggle with debugging? @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Output is not helpful (lldb) po objectiveCString 0x00007fbaa1f24910 (ObjectiveC.NSObject =
{}) @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Error messages make no sense @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
What?! That tool exists? @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
How debugging should be like • Get to the content
of interest @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
How debugging should be like • Get to the content
of interest • Get helpful error messages @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
How debugging should be like • Get to the content
of interest • Get helpful error messages • Display additional information where needed @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
How debugging should be like • Get to the content
of interest • Get helpful error messages • Display additional information where needed • Know about debugging tools @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
LLDB @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Expression (lldb) po objectiveCString 0x00007fbaa1f24910 (ObjectiveC.NSObject = {}) @_Caro _N,
22/3/2015
Expression (lldb) expression -O -- objectiveCString 0x00007fbaa1f24910 (ObjectiveC.NSObject = {})
@_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Magic command (lldb) expression -l objc -O -- (id) 0x00007fbaa1f24910
@_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Magic command (lldb) expression -l objc -O -- (id) 0x00007fbaa1f24910
I'm a fancy Objective-C String @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Breakpoints @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Editing Breakpoints @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Editing Breakpoints @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Editing Breakpoints @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Projectwide Breakpoints • Catch Objective-C or C++ Exceptions on throw
or catch @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Projectwide Breakpoints • Catch Objective-C or C++ Exceptions on throw
or catch @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Projectwide Breakpoints • Catch Objective-C or C++ Exceptions on throw
or catch • Catch OpenGL ES errors @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Projectwide Breakpoints • Catch Objective-C or C++ Exceptions on throw
or catch • Catch OpenGL ES errors • Stop when executing a specific function or method @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Projectwide Breakpoints • Catch Objective-C or C++ Exceptions on throw
or catch • Catch OpenGL ES errors • Stop when executing a specific function or method • Stop when test Assertions fail @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Symbolic Breakpoints @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Symbolic Breakpoints @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Compiler errors @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Approach? @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
1. Remove variables @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
2. Split instructions @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Add return type @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Launch arguments @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Adding arguments in the scheme editor @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Concurrency -com.apple.CoreData.ConcurrencyDebug 1 @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
SQL Statements -com.apple.CoreData.SQLDebug 3 @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Many more -com.apple.CoreData.MigrationDebug -com.apple.CoreData.SQLiteDebugSynchronous [0,1,2] -com.apple.CoreData.SQLiteIntegrityCheck 1 -com.apple.CoreData.ThreadingDebug [1,2,3] http://matthewmorey.com/tools-for-core-data/
@_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Localization • -NSDoubleLocalizedStrings 1 @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Localization • -NSDoubleLocalizedStrings 1 • -NSShowNonLocalizedStrings 1 @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Localization • -NSDoubleLocalizedStrings 1 • -NSShowNonLocalizedStrings 1 • -AppleLanguages (es
de) Technical Note TN2239 iOS Debugging Magic @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Debugging tools @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Charles • Debug http/https requests • Throttle traffic • Record
download statistics @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Swift REPL • Test and interact with your app •
Add new code • Clean slate xcrun swift in the terminal @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Activity Tracing Trace crashes in asynchonous code os_activity_t activity =
os_activity_start("activity name", OS_ACTIVITY_FLAG_DEFAULT); // [...] os_activity_set_breadcrumb("event description"); // [...] os_trace("Received %d creates, %d updates, %d deletes", created, updated, deleted); // [...] os_activity_end(activity); @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Activity Tracing @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Activity Tracing http://www.objc.io/issue-19/activity-tracing.html @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Summary • expression -l objc -O -- (id) 0x00007fbaa1f24910 •
Edit Breakpoints, add symbolic and exception breakpoints • Tackle incomprehensive compiler errors • Launch arguments • Charles, REPL, Activity tracing @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015
Thanks @_Caro _N, 22/3/2015