Why Programs Fail

A Guide to Systematic Debugging

Andreas Zeller

480 pages, parution le 16/12/2005

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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.

Audience : Software developers.

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How failures come to be
Tracking problems
Making programs fail
Reproducing problems
Simplifying problems
Scientific debugging
Deducing errors
Observing facts
Tracking origins
Asserting expectations
Detecting anomalies
Causes and effects
Isolating failure causes
Isolating cause-effect chains
Fixing the defect
Formal definitions
App.1 Delta debugging
App.2 Memory graphs
App.3 Cause-effect chains

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Morgan Kaufmann
Auteur(s)	Andreas Zeller
Parution	16/12/2005
Nb. de pages	480
Format	19 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	960g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781558608665
ISBN13	978-1-55860-866-5