Patent ID: 7882492

Claim:
A method for displaying a user-defined artifact in a debugger view, the user-defined artifact being defined in a software application developed by a computer software application developer, the software application being included in a packaged application, the packaged application configured to include instructions configured to be one of a user-defined instruction and a non-user defined instruction, a breakpoint having been defined at a desired instruction of the packaged application, the method comprising: initiating debugging of the packaged application; hitting the breakpoint defined at the desired instruction; identifying the user-defined artifact in the software application; obtaining data to populate the debugger view; filtering-in data associated with the user-defined artifact; displaying the debugger view showing the filtered-in data; marking data not associated with the user-defined artifact after the filtering; and stepping through the user-defined instruction after the marking, while skipping the data not associated with the user defined artifact, wherein each method operation is executed by a processor.