31 TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS AND TESTING TECHNIQUES

When I first started to share with a small number of friends and colleagues the fact that I was writing the book that you are now holding, what they wanted to see in it more than anything was a chapter on testing and troubleshooting because of the unique development challenges posed by Batch.

I’ve mentioned often that there’s no Batch compiler, and maybe this goes without saying, but there’s no animator or debugger either. Stepping through some Batch commands, stepping over others, setting breakpoints, and inspecting or modifying variables are pure fantasy, or a very bad novel in the making ...

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