CloudScript debugger
I have been using CloudScript for almost 2 years now. I developed a way to unit test my code using Node.js as a proxy for the server and I can debug that with Iron Node, which has saved a lot of time. But bugs still slip through and I have to go back to old school trial and error logging, which is laborious. I would like to be able to debug my CloudScript in place on the server.
There are requests for C# CloudScript, since people like to use languages they know, and many people likely develop in Unity, but with no debugger CloudScript development will remain slow even in their preferred language.
The kind of bugs that I still see come from a few reasons:
- I mock out the entire Playfab API, so if the data I mock is slightly off I get a false passed test and debugging with real data from the API is the only way to find that my mock data is the culprit, i.e. unit test bug
- 100% code coverage is too high a bar and Murphy's Law says I have bugs where I don't have coverage
- Sometimes it's the interactions between units that have the bugs and since units are tested in isolation these are not uncovered
- Works on my machine syndrome: I want to debug with real data
(I am now writing a set of integration tests to lessen some of these but I can't eliminate them)