From the course: Complete Guide to UiPath RPA Development

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- [Instructor] Debugging is a skill that every RPA developer should excel at. And debugging simply means using some features of UiPath Studio to meticulously step through your logic and examine values of your variables when you're trying to understand why something isn't working as you would expect. UiPath offers a variety of debugging related features, and the next few videos, we'll demonstrate them. One collection of features pertains to visualization. They've got a feature called Slow Step, which slows down the execution so you can watch each activity go by and see data values in a panel on the left side. They have a feature called Execution Trail, which basically puts a check mark on every activity that executed so you can visually verify that all the activities you expect to execute did execute. Finally, they have a feature called Highlight Elements, and what this does is to add something like a red rectangle around elements on target systems you're automating. So for example…

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