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Stop at a breakpoint and debug

Stop at a breakpoint and debug

- [Instructor] Now let's take a look at debugging with breakpoints. During this demo I will add a breakpoint, which will pause the execution of my automation, and allow me to advance through the activities manually. And while the automation is paused on any given activity, I can examine the value of my variables using the locals, watch, and immediate panels. So let's go have a look. When I right click on any activity, I can toggle a breakpoint. When I do that, we see this red dot up here. The presence of that red dot means that when I run in debug mode, the execution will stop, or pause wherever a breakpoint exists. Notice there's this breakpoint icon where I can also toggle the breakpoint from here on the selected activity, or I can show the breakpoints panel, which is also down here at the bottom. When I open the breakpoints panel, you see that I can use this button to delete all breakpoints, I can use this one to enable all breakpoints, or this one to disable all breakpoints. So…

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