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Blockly is a visual programming editor by Google, being open-source multi-platform and multi-language, while offering jigsaw-style program blocks. It is very popular and currently adopted by an increasing number of visual development solutions. However, as with similar earlier tools, it lacks a full-scale debugger. We present a complete visual debugger for Blockly, working over blocks, supporting the full range of debugging features as with typical source-level debuggers. To support all tracing functions we make no amendments to the underlying JavaScript engine, supporting all debugging operations through code instrumentation inserting invocations to a busy-wait debugger service loop. The latter affects only the source code that is output by Blockly.
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Savidis, A., Savaki, C. (2020). Complete Block-Level Visual Debugger for Blockly. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W., Pickl, S., Taiar, R. (eds) Human Systems Engineering and Design II. IHSED 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1026. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27928-8_43
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