Debugging q Code

This chapter first makes a brief overview of the native errors people may encounter when using incorrect syntax. It then focuses on how to debug the code when encountering errors and moves on to advise on how people can structure their codebase better, and debugging tools available for execution trace and dynamic debugging. The chapter focuses on two main pain points: the first is avoiding simple syntax errors when initially writing one's code in his/her IDE and, secondly, interpreting the generally obscure and short q errors and how people can make these more verbose while their code increases in complexity. When using an IDE to connect to a remote server, or one's local process connects to a remote q process, he/she may need to deal with his/her function failing while executing server‐side.