books about: debugging     books:       The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD Norman Matloff, Peter Salzman No Starch Press, 2008 Debugging is of central importance to successful software development, and yet many beginning programmers are unaware of the techniques they can use to reduce the time they spend finding and fixing programming errors. GDB, a popular open source debugger, allows a programmer to trace program execution line by line, set breakpoints, inspect variables, and look at what the program is doing at any given time. DDD is a popular GUI front end for GDB, ...             Debugging15 reviews David, J Agans Amacom, 2006 Critical work for anyone who works on any sort of system, machine, or software This book is absolutely indispensable for anyone working in any job where things occasionally work in an unexpected manner. It's concise, funny, well-written, and full of immensely useful tips on how to go about debugging problems. One of the great things about this book is that it's generalistic in nature, not specific. Agans's decades of troubleshooting experience has given him great ...             Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications4 reviews John Robbins Microsoft Press, 2006 An Excellent Source of Tips, Tricks, and How-To's As somebody who debugs applications for a living, I found this an outstanding resource to both refresh my memory, give me new tips and tricks, and provide a frame of reference for sharing this knowledge with others. If you do not already have a symbol server set up for your organization, then you should order this book today for the simple step-by-step instructions for how to do this. This is an ...             Debugging Windows Programs: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Visual C++ Programmers (The DevelopMentor ...13 reviews Everett N. McKay, Mike Woodring Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000 Pays for itself within your first project I wish I had this book before - only discovered it recently. This book pays for itself within your first project. Surgical precision-like debugging. Wealth of information. I hope they are working on a sequel to this book for .Net development.             BUGS in Writing, Revised Edition: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose (2nd Edition)17 reviews Lyn Dupre Addison-Wesley Professional, 1998 I don't know if it's art, but I liked it! I just recently finished a technical book and the book and Lyn's advice to be spot on. She flags the problems that I had with my writing style (or lack thereof). Her style of writing is quirky, but entertaining. I enjoyed it immensely. If I had bothered to read the book before I started righting my own book, I would have finished my book in much less time. A cautionary note: this book is ...             Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows (Pro-Developer)10 reviews John Robbins Microsoft Press, 2003 Very well done book! This book is a book for the advanced programmer who says "I already know how to build a halfway decent windows app, how do I take my debugging to the next level and deliver truly good apps?" This book covers real-world debugging issues that plague programmers and are difficult to solve, such as multi-threading and memory issues amongst others. Also this book has several entertaining real-world ...             Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging4 reviews Andreas Zeller Morgan Kaufmann, 2005 Extremely thoughtful As a practionner I am delighted to see a systematic method applied to software. Too often is writing software compared to art or magic, while more often that not it is a matter of rigour, analysis and rational thinking (intuition does not hurt of course). The author attacks the problem of dealing with software defects with method and his analysis is sound. This book is a very welcome help to ...             Advanced Windows Debugging (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)12 reviews Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007 Must have for any serious Windows programmer Chapters on debugging heap/stack corruptions are simply invaluable. Worth reading even if you think you know everything about those issues, this book will easily prove you wrong.             Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building ...29 reviews Steve Maguire Microsoft Press, 1994 Great for Software development team leads and Managers A co-worker recommended the book so I pick up a used copy from a 3rd party vendor here on the Amazon site. Been reading the book and it is absolutely as good as my co-worker suggested. Great ideas on how to lead software development teams. Lots of practical advice from someone who has been leading teams at Microsoft for years. I find the ideas useful, refreshing, and focused on making ...             Pro Perl Debugging4 reviews Richard Foley, Andy Lester Apress, 2005 Perl has a Debugger? Perl is one of the easiest language for doing "quirk and dirty" tasks, such as text manipulation and writing command-line utilities for your OS of choice. However, as any Perl programmer can tell you debugging can be a nightmare and most of rely on the old-fashioned print statement to aid most of our debugging work. As powerful as Perl is, one of the drawbacks has always been its lack of an ...             Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers3 reviews Martin C. Brown McGraw-Hill Companies, 2000 It's about time... After a countless number of Perl books have been published, not much has been published like this book. The Learning Perl books are great, but learning the syntax isn't always the needed information to programmers. This book is different in that it focuses on some of the quirky odd things that you may run into programming. After designing in Perl for 3 years, I still run into times the code ...             The Os/2 Debugging Handbook: Basic Skills and Diagnostic Techniques IBM Redbooks Ibm, 1996             Practical Debugging in C++4 reviews Ann R. Ford, Toby J. Teorey Prentice Hall, 2002 Great Book for basics of debugging As a recent graduate of Computer Engineering, I wish I had this book when I started my programming career. It is very helpful in showing you how to get started debugging.             Application Debugging: An MVS Abend Handbook for Cobol, Assembly, PL/1, and Fortran Programmers ...1 review Robert Binder Prentice Hall, 1985 a Book every Programmer needs to have on their Desk Provides not only an explantion of the abend, the book also gives you a detailed background on the possible causes. Potential abend resolutions presented cover both COBOL and JCL specifically as well as general comments, dump analysis and what steps to take to correct the abending application. The book also presents background (limited detail) on printing Dumps, source code degugging and tips and ...             Debugging ASP.NET (Landmark)9 reviews Jonathan Goodyear, Brian Peek, ... Sams, 2001 Overall good book There are good chapter about Tracing, code structures, and ADO.net debugging, and lot more. A must have for .Net Web developers. Code examples are in both VB and C#. I wish Author have included more code for COM based debugging.             Debugging Applications: Microsoft (Dv-Mps Programming)18 reviews John Robbins Microsoft Press, 2000 Excellent Choice Among Windows Debugging Books I have four debugging books on the shelf above my monitor. This is the one I refer to most. I have over 30 years programming experience, about ten in C and C++, and I find that this book is an excellent resource. I still haven't read it cover to cover, and the CD is still sealed - much of it is on MSDN in some form anyway - so some of the other review complaints may have merit. ...             The Science of Debugging3 reviews Yuan Hsieh, Matthew Telles Paraglyph Press, 2002 Rich with wisdom I admit that I bought this book fully expecting to be "underwhelmed." Instead, I was pleasantly surprised as to how much this work had to offer. They begin the book with this interesting premise: "One of the groups that is likely to discount this book is the system architects camp, although they are the ones that are most likely to be aided by understanding the root causes of bugs and how they ...             Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging4 reviews Andreas Zeller Morgan Kaufmann, 2005 Extremely thoughtful As a practionner I am delighted to see a systematic method applied to software. Too often is writing software compared to art or magic, while more often that not it is a matter of rigour, analysis and rational thinking (intuition does not hurt of course). The author attacks the problem of dealing with software defects with method and his analysis is sound. This book is a very welcome help to ...             Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code (Expert's Voice)2 reviews Reverend Bill Blunden Apress, 2003 An Inmate's View of Life in an IT Dungeon Software Exorcism is a mind-dump by an experienced maintenance programmer. Bill Blunden lists all the horrendous coding techniques he's come across in commercial software, while offering detailed tips on debugging and optimizing code. The very useful code examples are written in C++, C or assembly language, mostly on an Intel platform. 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