Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging -- Chapter 3, Making Programs Fail

Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging -- Chapter 3, Making Programs Fail


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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

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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.

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Printed with permission from Morgan Kaufman, a division of Elsevier. Copyright 2006. "Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging" by Andreas Zeller. For more information about this book, please visit www.mkp.com.

This was first published in October 2007

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