Debugging
Debugging is an important exercise when authoring Solidity smart contracts. Debugging refers to finding issues, bugs, and removing them by changing code. It is very difficult to debug a smart contract if there is in adequate support from tools and utilities. Generally, debugging involves executing each line of code step by step, finding the current state of temporary, local, and global variables and walking through each instruction while executing contracts.
There are the following ways to debug Solidity contracts:
- Using the Remix editor
- Events
- Block explorer
The Remix editor
We used the Remix editor to write Solidity contracts in the previous chapters. However, we have not used the debugging utility available in Remix. The Remix debugger helps us observe the runtime behavior of contract execution and identify issues. The debugger works in Solidity and the resultant contract bytecode. With the debugger, the execution can be paused to examine contract code, state variables, local variables...
