Why Programs Fail
eBook - PDF

Why Programs Fail

A Guide to Systematic Debugging

  1. 480 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Why Programs Fail

A Guide to Systematic Debugging

About this book

Why Programs Fail is about bugs in computer programs, how to find them, how to reproduce them, and how to fix them in such a way that they do not occur anymore. This is the first comprehensive book on systematic debugging and covers a wide range of tools and techniques ranging from hands-on observation to fully automated diagnoses, and includes instructions for building automated debuggers. This discussion is built upon a solid theory of how failures occur, rather than relying on seat-of-the-pants techniques, which are of little help with large software systems or to those learning to program. The author, Andreas Zeller, is well known in the programming community for creating the GNU Data Display Debugger (DDD), a tool that visualizes the data structures of a program while it is running.- Winner of a 2006 Jolt Productivity Award for Technical Books- Shows how to reproduce software failures faithfully, how to isolate what is important about the failure, and to discover what caused it- Describes how to fix the program in the best possible way, and shows how to create your own automated debugging tools- Includes exercises and extensive references for further study

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. About the Author
  5. Table of contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. 1 How Failures Come to Be
  9. 2 Tracking Problems
  10. 3 Making Programs Fail
  11. 4 Reproducing Problems
  12. 5 Simplifying Problems
  13. 6 Scientific Debugging
  14. 7 Deducing Errors
  15. 8 Observing Facts
  16. 9 Tracking Origins
  17. 10 Asserting Expectations
  18. 11 Detecting Anomalies
  19. 12 Causes and Effects
  20. 13 Isolating Failure Causes
  21. 14 Isolating Cause-Effect Chains
  22. 15 Fixing the Defect
  23. Appendix Formal Definitions
  24. Glossary
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index