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Tracing

Debugging techniques, as you saw in the previous sections, are tuned for development activities. Applications deployed at customer sites do not contain any debugging information. In a scenario where an application deployed at a customer site fails, you must re-create the problem in your development environment before you can identify the causes and fix the problem. In order to re-create a problem, you need to replicate the exact steps that a user took, including the data entered. That is easier said than done! Users perform numerous activities using software applications as a part of their business processes. Needless to say, there are a lot of variations that can happen in even the simplest business processes. What you need is a mechanism ...