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How to debug a unit test for a WordPress plugin, which uses wordpress-test?

I'm attempting to debug a unit test for a WordPress plugin. The unit test uses wordpress-test (and PHPUnit). However, wordpress-test: calls system(php ...) the new external PHP process attempts to ...
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Getting a WordPress Debug Strategy

I have been reading up on debugging. I watched Chip Bennett's video on wordpress.tv and was inspired to take debugging seriously. What I have found in my reading up though has confused me a bit. I ...
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How to debug WordPress correctly?

I'm using a few plugins and UpThemes framework on my new website and if I turn on Wp Debug I can see that there are a few errors related to Deprecated functions (but website is working). What I would ...
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How to debug a plugin with Xdebug?

I was able to install and setup quite easily NetBeans 6.9.1 and Xdebug on my local environment, based on PHP 5.3.0 (XAMPP). My problem now is the following: if I put a breakpoint on Wordpress's ...
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How do you debug plugins?

I am pretty new to plugin authoring and was having a hard time debuging. I used lots of echo and it is sloppy and ugly. I am sure there is a better way to do this, maybe an IDE with a debugger that ...