5.6 Stepping Through a Program

The Distributed Debugger allows you to process one line of code at a time in multiple ways. You do this by stepping through your program.

Methods of stepping through:

  1. Click on the Step over or Step debug icons in the toolbar.

    Step over executes the current statement but without stopping in any program or procedure called within the statement. Step debug executes the current statement, but execution stops at the next statement encountered for which debug information is available. This could be in the current procedure, in the called procedure, or in a procedure called within the called procedure.

  2. tip Step performance can sometimes be improved by collapsing the Thread nodes in the Local and Stacks panes. If a node is expanded, a minus icon will be displayed. Click this icon to collapse the node.

Click on to indicate that you have reviewed stepping through.