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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.
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