Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Debugging

Debugging is the process of locating and correcting errors in your code. Debugging can take on many forms, ranging from simple print statements, to interactive debugging in an IDE, to unit testing. No matter how you do it, debugging is a critical step, that, when done properly and efficiently, can speed up development and testing of your scripts. For our purposes here, let's focus on the two simplest and easiest ways to learn and implement methods--print statements and interactive debugging.