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Debugging AJAX in Production.

The article discusses efforts to debug, or correct, computer code created with AJAX Web site development technology. The lack of robust error messages as well as native stack traces has presented computer scientists with major challenges related to AJAX development. Topics include Web browsers which...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 57 - 61
Main Author: SCHROCK, ERIC
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2009
Subjects:
AJAX (Web development technology)
Debugging
Web development software
Web browsers
Computer software development
Computer scientists
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses efforts to debug, or correct, computer code created with AJAX Web site development technology. The lack of robust error messages as well as native stack traces has presented computer scientists with major challenges related to AJAX development. Topics include Web browsers which have as a central design principle the tolerance of failure, the proliferation of complex AJAX applications which have changed the nature of the JavaScript environment, and software engineers who can debug programs during the development phase.