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So, now let's look in a little more detail to what is an IDE. An IDE is a

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software application that supports software developers in many of

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their everyday tasks. It has many useful features. Most IDEs

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provide views that can be used to navigate, project

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resources from different perspectives. For example, you might want to

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look at your code differently when you're writing code,

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and when you're debugging. They also normally provide an intelligent

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source code editor. For example, an editor that will allow you

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to browse the documentation when you're writing a code that

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uses a specific method, or that will give you autocompletion when

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you start writing the name of an object and you want to

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get the methods for that object. And all of these things

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can be very useful while you're developing and can save you a

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lot of time. Modern IDE's will also normally give you support for

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version control systems that then you

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can use for softer configuration management.

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And we're going to discuss in detail version control systems in

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the next tools of the trade lesson, and we're also

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going to see how it can be integrated within an IDE.

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IDEs also give you builders so they give you build automation

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tools, they give you runtime support. So that you can

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run your projects from within the IDE and, for example,

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observe some aspects of the execution. In addition to giving

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you support for the runtime, they give you support for testing.

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Many IDEs allow you to run tests from within

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the IDE and to check the results of the tests

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from within the IDE. Not only that. Normally, after you

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run your tests, if there are some test cases that

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fail, you can also use your IDEs to do debugging.

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Many IDEs include graphical debuggers. Debuggers will allow you to

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navigate through the code, set which points, stop and restart

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the execution. Inspect variables, and do all of the activities

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that help debugging. And, to help you be more efficient

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and more effective when you do debugging. And into addition to

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all these features that are listed here IDEs can normally provide

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you even more features through a mechanishm that is called plugins.