How can you debug Lego Mindstorms programs?

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Is there any way to add any sort of debugging to a Lego Mindstorms program, when using the NXT drag-and-drop environment?

It would be nice to be able to monitor the status of the various sensors, but even knowing what step in the program was running would be nice.

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