State Dump

Introduced in Debugging TV⁷⁰ Frames episode 0×32 about Android / Java debugging this pattern solves the problem of program state analysis when memory dump generation is not available or doesn't help or complicated as in the case of interpreted code. Basically a developer identifies a set of state variables and periodically prints their values to the output logging stream. Such output may also include but not limited to Counter Values (page 288).

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