| Description | Xdebug and provides a range of features to improve the PHP development experience.
 
 Step Debugging
 A way to step through your code in your IDE or editor while the script is
 executing.
 
 Improvements to PHP's error reporting
 An improved var_dump() function, stack traces for Notices, Warnings, Errors
 and Exceptions to highlight the code path to the error
 
 Tracing
 Writes every function call, with arguments and invocation location to disk.
 Optionally also includes every variable assignment and return value for
 each function.
 
 Profiling
 Allows you, with the help of visualisation tools, to analyse the
 performance of your PHP application and find bottlenecks.
 
 Code Coverage Analysis
 To show which parts of your code base are executed when running unit tests
 with PHP Unit.
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